Feb. 20, 2025

La Luz Mala

La Luz Mala

This little light of miiine 🎶 In this episode, Ayden shares a story based on the legend of La Luz Mala, a supernatural, luminescent phenomenon originating from Uruguay.

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This little light of miiine 🎶 In this episode, Ayden shares a story based on the legend of La Luz Mala, a supernatural, luminescent phenomenon originating from Uruguay.

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A girlfriends, It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I

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am still your host and you are still listening to Sustill,

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the podcast of ouky spooky scary stories centered on paranormal

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folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures. Welcome back, Thank

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you for being here. If this is your first time, welcome,

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thank you for joining us, please pull up a seat.

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And if you are a returning ghoul back from the dead,

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thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it.

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Heads up, I did an episode last week. I'm doing

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it again this week, trying to keep the momentum going.

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This is a video episode for Best Girlfriends on Patreon,

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So if you are subscribed to patreon dot com sustal

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podcast at the Best school Friend tier, then you have

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the opportunity to watch this episode as well as listen

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to it. Otherwise, thank you so much for listening. Not

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a ton of updates, I will say, folks, things are

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in the swing already.

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Listen.

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I've already got people whispering in my ear about summer

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and even Halloween events. So, as I've always said, I

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feel like it's usually in the spooky season where I'm

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really promoting. But I've said, I said it this last

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spooky season. I want to be engaged with the community

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all year long, so please do not hesitate to reach

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out to me. Do not hesitate to pitch Sustal to

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somebody or pitch on event to me, regardless of the

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time of year. I love being out in the community

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and doing things, So again, put it all out there

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because you never know what can happen.

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Not a ton of.

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Updates in regard to Sustal, but something just really fun

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that I wanted to share Today Today's Sunday, the fifteenth,

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I took a class at City Alchemist. If you have

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been following me for a while, you may have seen

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that I've posted about visiting their shop. I mean ever

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since I moved up here, but I and even before then,

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I would visit their shop. They're one of my favorite

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spots here in Austin. If you've never been, it is

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where the witches shop in Austin, Texas. I love being

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in their space. They just moved next door to a

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bigger space, and so it's really nice. The energy has

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always been great, but it's like for me personally, and

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I don't know what they would say, but the energy

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is it just feels more like free flowing. And again

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because it's a bigger space, that makes sense, right. Anyway,

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I took a class today. It was a leap yard

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the level or an egg cleansing class, and I grew

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up getting limp yas with the egg so it just

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you know, it was a great class because they did

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a tutorial, but they also gave kind of a lecture

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on some of the history behind the practice of an

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egg cleanse and the symbolism, and it was just really

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cool to have that hands on teaching space or experience

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with them. So big, big, huge shout out to City

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alcol and Alexis and Eric, you all did amazing and yeah,

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it was just really fun. It did bring up a

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lot of questions for me. I need to call my

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mom and say, hey, why do I remember getting so

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many leap y'alls growing up? What was happening to me

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that maybe I did not keep in store? So who knows,

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just some fun developments that happened there. But I do

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believe in their first book, Mahya Mahia, which I do

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have a copy of and I'll post a picture up

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here for Patreon, they go over the practice of egg

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cleanses in the book. So if you have been interested

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in learning about bouhidio or brushing up or fine tuning

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your practice, I highly recommend they have two books, both

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of them. But Maha Mahya, I think is a great

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kind of introduction into this kind of practice.

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Other than that, make.

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Sure that you follow at Soostal Podcast on every social

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media platform for any and all updates on the show.

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I've been having a lot of fun on Instagram. You

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all may have seen. I've been kind of just going

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off on there. So finally, I don't know what it

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was clicked in my head where I was like, oh,

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this doesn't have to always be about what's going on

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with the show. I can also just post really fun,

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silly stuff as well, so check that out. I hope

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everyone had an amazing, wonderful, cutesy Valentine's Day, a volloween,

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a Gulantine's, a Gallantines.

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Whatever you want to call it out.

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Everybody had so much love surround them this week and

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of course all year long. Jeff and I I made

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a post about it on Instagram. We went to House

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of Torment here in Austin. It is a local haunt

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and they were doing a I guess Valentines adjacent haunt.

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It was called love Bites and it was all about

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vampires and I had so much fun there.

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The scare actors were amazing.

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It was my first time visiting House of Torment and

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hopefully will not be my last. Y'all get your money's worth.

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I think it was a great haunt. I don't want

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to go into too many details. I'll just say it

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was worth every penny and more and House of Torment

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if you're listening, hey, personally invite Ghoul out if you

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want to.

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Either way, I will be going back. But hey, what's up?

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Loved it? You all killed it? Literally? Do you like

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how it was?

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Like? Oh, there's really no updates and I'm just now

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giving you everything about my life. Anyway, thanks for being here.

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Let's go ahead and jump into today's story, which is

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another Jeffrey original. So I had this idea yesterday actually,

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on our way back from the Haunted House. I was

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just thinking about recording today, and I thought, oh, I know,

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I know what Jeff's title is at SUSTO. Now. I

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always made the joke before that he's like the unpaid

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intern whatever whatever, But I was like, wait, he's my

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ghost writer, you get it, like like ghost boo, and

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he does some of the writing for Sustal now and

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but also like he's writing for me. And that's what

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ghostwriters do, like they ghost Listen. If you got it,

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you got it, Thank you. If not, don't worry about it.

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Just know that today's story was primarily produced and researched

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by Jeffrey Doyle. Thank you so much Jeffrey for the

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As always, it's a great story. I'm excited to share

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it with you. And without further ado, we're going to

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get into it. It is the story of La LUs Mala.

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Juliandramos had always been a man hungry for power, though

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he had little of it. He was not a landowner,

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nor a man of wealth, nor anyone the town truly respected.

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He worked for the Ibarra, one of the largest cattle

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ranchers in Rio Negro, a man known for his cruelty

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and greed. Ibarra kept many men like Julian close, men

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too poor to refuse him and too proud to question him.

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That was when Thomas entered his life. Tomas was a northerner,

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a stranger in Rio Negro. He had come looking for work,

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desperate to feed his family. Unlike Julian, he was kind, honest, and,

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worst of all, unafraid of don Estevan. Julian hated him immediately.

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It wasn't just that Domas was a better worker. It

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was that he spoke out when Ivara tried to underpay

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the men. Domas had argued when Ivara let his overseers

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beat a peon half to death, Domas had stepped in,

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And when the whispers began that some of the workers

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were planning to stand up to Ibarra, Domas's name was

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the first to be spoken. Julian didn't care about the

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suffering of others, but he cared about his place. He

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was not going to let a man like Domas take

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it from him. So Huen Ibarra's few faithful men gathered

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at a local bar one night, Drunk and angry about

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the troublemaker from the north. Julian saw an opportunity leave

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him to me. Julian had planned only to scare him.

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He waited until Thomas walked home alone, taking the dirt

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road that led towards his rented shack in the hills. Julian,

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followed by his friend Ramiro, was drunk and eager for

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a fight, They confronted Domas near an old tree, the

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moonlight glittering through the leaves. Do you think you're better

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than us?

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Tomas?

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Julian sneered. Domas, familiar with Julian's ego, stood his ground.

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Leave me alone, Julian. But Julian could not be stopped now.

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He pushed Domas hard, and Ramidro laughed. Domas pushed back,

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and then Julian saw red. He swung first a hard

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blow to Domas's jaw. Then Ramiro joined in. The fight

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went from taunting to brutal. Julian hadn't meant to kill him,

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but rage and the fear of being humiliated clouded his judgment.

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When Thomas collapsed to the ground, screaming for help while

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coughing blood, something inside Julian snapped. He lifted a rock

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and brought it down hard, once twice until there was

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no more movement. Ramudo's laughter stopped, and he took a

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staggering step backward. Julian's breath was ragged, his hands were

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slick with blood, and Tomas was dead. For a moment,

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no one spoke. Then Ramudo whispered, what do we do?

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Julian wiped his mouth, forcing his voice to be steady.

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We bury him because if anyone found out what they

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had done, they would both hang for it. They dug

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a grave near the river, far enough that the rains

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would wash away the evidence. By the time they finished,

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dawn was breaking over the horizon. They swore never to

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speak of it again, and for a time Houlian convinced

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himself it was over and in the past. But the

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dead do not forget, and some debts, no matter how

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deep you bury them, are never truly gone. Two weeks later,

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Ramidro left town. He told no one one night he

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was drinking at the bar, and the next morning his

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house was empty Without Ramidro. Julian continued to drink alone

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in the bar until the night an old man came

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running in pale as a corpse.

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I saw it, La LUs Mala, I saw it. The

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others laughed. Julian did not.

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He grabbed the old man by the collar, dragging him outside,

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where he demanded. The old man's hands shook as he

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pointed toward the country side by the river. Hoolian could

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not sleep that night and decided he needed to leave

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that life behind him once and for all years passed,

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Julian changed. He stopped drinking and started to build a

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better life for himself. He settled down, married Elena, and

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had a daughter, Sophia, his light in the darkness. With

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all the joy he now had, Julian had done his

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best to forget his past, but the dead do not forget.

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It was a peaceful life until the night the light appeared.

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Julian had just finished his evening yetba mate when he

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stepped outside for a breath of fresh air. The night

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was clear, the sky dusted with stars, but something felt wrong.

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The air was too still. Even the crickets had gone silent.

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That's when he noticed it, a small pale light approaching

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his home from just beyond the barn. Julian thought it

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could be a lost traveler, but it was no lantern.

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It flickered and pulled who like a living thing. Julian frowned.

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He tried to forget about his past. He had convinced

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himself that the old man who claimed to see La

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Lusmla was just drunk and confused. But here he was

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seeing a suspicious light. As he stepped forward, the light

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moved back, almost as if it knew he was watching

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he took another cautious step. The light receded further, keeping

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just out of reach. A sudden chill ran through him.

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It was trying to lead him back in the direction

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of the river. The urge to call out, who's there

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rose in his throat, but something deep inside told him

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not to. Instead, he turned around and went inside, locking

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the door behind him. The next few nights, Julian stared

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beyond the barn and saw nothing. He convinced himself again

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and it had been a trick of his tired eyes.

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Then came the night his daughter fell ill at only

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seven years old. Little Sophia was the heart of that

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Domo's family, a bright, playful child with a laugh that

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could melt the hardest of hearts. But that night, instead

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of laughter, their home was filled with screaming. Julian and

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Elena rushed into Sophia's room. She sat upright in bed,

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her little body trembling, her eyes wide with terror. Papa,

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the light it's at my window, Julian froze. Elena, confused,

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rushed to comfort their daughter, pressing a cool hand to

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her forehead. But Julian turned slowly toward the window, and

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there it was the same pale light hovering just outside, watching,

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but now it was closer than before. He ran to

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the window, yanked the curtains shut, and grabbed his shotgun

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from the corner of the room. Without a word, he

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stormed outside, heart pounding in his chest. The light was gone,

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but the air was thick, heavy, like before a storm.

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And then he heard it, a whisper, soft at first.

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Carried by the wind.

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A single unintelligible voice, then another and another surrounding him.

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Julian turned wildly, pointing the shotgun into the dark. His

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hands were slick with sweat. Show yourself, damn it. Silence.

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He took a slow step forward. The barn door creaked

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in the wind. A cow let out a soft, uneasy

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moan in the distance. Then the light returned, but this

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time it was not alone. Two more lights blinked into

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existence behind it, then a fourth, a fifth, a dozen,

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floating in the darkness surrounding his house. A wave of ice,

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cold fear washed over him. His chest felt tight, as

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if something unseen was pressing down on him. The shotgun

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felt useless in his hands, and then, just as suddenly

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as they appeared, they vanished. Julian staggered back inside. Sofia

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had fallen into a deep, feverish sleep, her tiny chest

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rising and falling in sharp, shallow breaths. Elena sat beside her,

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whispering prayers under her breath. Julian said nothing about what

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he had seen, but that night he did not sleep.

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The next morning, Julian went into town and sought out

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the oldest and wisest man he knew, don Ivara, his

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former boss, who was now retired. When Julian described the lights,

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don Ibada's face grew grave. They are lost souls, spirits

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trapped and searching for rest. Julian swallowed hard. He knew

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who the lost soul was.

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What does he want?

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Don Ivara studied him for a long time, then, in

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a voice just above a whisper, he said, someone here

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has a debt with the dead. Julian's blood ran cold.

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He returned home before sunset that night. As the candles

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flickered inside their house, he gathered his family, holding Sophia close.

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The lights returned, but instead of chasing them, Julian did

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something different. He knelt in the doorway and with a

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shaking voice, began to pray aloud. He asked for forgiveness.

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He asked for peace. He asked the wandering souls to

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move on. The lights did not move, but the whispering

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grew softer. Sophia stirred in her sleep, her fever breaking.

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The tension in the air lifted. The lights did not

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return to the house. Sophia grew strong and healthy, but

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hu Lean withered from the toll his guilt was taking

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on his body. He had almost brought a curse to

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his family. He eventually turned back to drinking. By the

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time Sophia was a teenager, he was a husk of

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the man. He used to be a permanent fixture at

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the bar, drowning in rum, muttering to himself about lights

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that found his home.

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No one believed him.

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They called him a drunk, a madman. Then one stormy night,

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he made a mistake. After the storm had passed and

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the wind still carried the scent of wet earth and

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distant lightning, Julian stumbled out of the dimly lit bar,

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his breath heavy with cheap rum. He laughed to himself

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as he adjusted his worn out hat, kicking a loose

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stone down the empty dirt road. La lous mala ha

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I saved my family from it. The town whispered about

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La Lusmla attacking his daughter Sophia, warning that those who

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saw it were forever cursed. But Julian thought he had

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escaped that fate. He staggered toward the open fields, the

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cool night air sobering him slightly. The countryside stretched wide,

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endless darkness, broken only by the occasional outline of a

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lonely tree. He could not tell where he was in town,

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but he knew the place felt strangely familiar. Then Julian's

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boots sank into the deep soil as he reached a

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clearing by the river. This was where he buried the

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body of Tomas. He wondered if the bones still lay

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beneath the soil, and that's when he saw it. A

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small flickering light hovered just above the ground in the distance.

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At first, it was no bigger than a candle flame,

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wavering gently as if caught in the wind. Julian squinted

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his mind raised. Was it La Lusmla again? Maybe it

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was just a lantern in the distance. But the longer

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he stared, the larger the light became.

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So you've come back for me.

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I've stopped you once in your life and once in

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your death, I can stop you again. Thomas Julian's proud, evil,

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former self surged forth.

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He thought he buried that.

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Side of himself, but that man was always inside. He

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raised his hands and put them together, mocking the prayer

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that once saved his family, and took a step forward.

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The light stopped moving. The night had gone silent. No crickets,

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no wind, nothing. A chill ran through his spine. Then

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the light changed. It flared, a deep, blood red, pulsing

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like a beating heart. The air thickened, pressing down on

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his chest. His drunken bravado faded as he took an

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instinctive step back. Suddenly the light surged forward. Who lean

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turned to run, but his legs wouldn't move. His body

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felt frozen, held by something unseen. The light rushed toward him,

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growing impossibly bright until it filled his entire vision. Then

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came the whispers, at first soft, then louder, surrounding him,

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a hundred voices overlapping, speaking in a language he did

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not understand. Then came the screams, the screams of Tomas

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letting out his last breaths of life. They were joined

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by dozens, possibly hundreds of other screams, piercing, endless wails

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of something once human but no longer. The light engulfed him,

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and in its center he saw no he said, his

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mind refused to comprehend it. His mouth stretched open in

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a silent scream as the world collapsed around him. The

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villagers found his body just after sunrise, curled into a

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fetal position in the exact spot where La Lusmalla had appeared.

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His face was twisted in terror, eyes wide open, mouth

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frozen mid scream. His skin was cold as stone, and

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his hands were bald up so tightly that his nails

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had pierced his own palms. No one dared move him

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until the priest arrived. He saw something, priest whispered as

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he traced a trembling cross over the corpse, something no

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man should ever see. Elena and Sophia buried Julian that afternoon.

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No one spoke a word. They never knew why La

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LUs Mala came for him. That night, as the wind

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held through the empty field, a small red light flickered waiting.

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Julian was not the only person who was there the

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night Tomas died. Ramido may have fled town, but he

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still owed a debt. Welcome back, Welf friends, thank you

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so much for listening to that story. We're gonna go

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ahead and jump right into the sources, and even before that,

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right off the bat. This is a story that originates

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from Uruguay, and I think it's also seen in Argentina,

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but we're going to see that mentioned throughout these sources.

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So the first one that we have here is from

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It's a website. It ends it's an edu website, but

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I want to say this is pronounced.

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Cyble or sable.

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It's cei b a l and it's just a legend

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of La lusmala or legend of the bad light, if

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you translate it. All direct links are in the Patreon,

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but this kind of just gives a really brief overview

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of what laalusmala is. So reading from this, it says

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there are lights that can be seen in fields and

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they can appear green or blue at night. They are

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seen as floating above the ground, sometimes described in waving movements,

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so that kind of like flickering kind of wave movement,

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or simply immobile, so just balls of light, and it

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is common to see these lights in cemeteries and fields.

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I might kind of trip up a little bit here

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with these sources, because a lot of these are originally

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in Spanish and then they're roughly translated to English. But

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this continues that in Uruguay, this is what is popularly

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known as lalusmala. Legends say that these luminescences are souls

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in pain who are wandering on the earth for having

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suffered a violent death and are demanding justice. There is

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also a belief among the countrymen that when a bad

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light chases a person or appears to a person, it

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is a bad omen for death. Much like many things

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that we see here on Suso. It's usually like there's

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omens or even if it's like a spirit or a monster.

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If you hear them or if you see them in

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certain contexts, then it means that they're an omen for

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bad news or even death. This continues according to popular belief.

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It is also said that the greener the light, like

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the greener of the tone of the light, the more

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evil it is, or the more severe of.

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An omen it is.

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Tradition teaches that when someone encounters a la lusmla that

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firearms do not work. Guns do not work, so as

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was included in the story that although Julian had his

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shotgun when he went out to chase the light and

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he was confronted with multiple lights, the gun just felt

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useless because, according to legend, firearms are uselessly against us.

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How do you shoot light? Right? But also I would

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kind of suspend my kind of like grip on reality

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for some of these things, because what is effective is

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if someone bites down on the I'm assuming they mean

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like the handle of a knife. So you say a

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prayer and you bite down on the knife, and I

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guess you just hold it in your mouth as you

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make your escape. This says one of the locations that

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it's reported that people have seen the loos mala is

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Sierra de las Animas. It says it's a range in

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uru Way.

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And this is just like a really.

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Really nice mountainous kind of open green like kind of valley.

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It looks like from pictures that I'm seeing here, it

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looks really nice. And Google is telling me that it

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is about a fourteen hour flight from here, so I mean,

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it looks nice enough to visit to me, But this

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is kind of one of those places where it's seen.

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I do want to say though, that this is kind

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of reminding me of a willow the wisp or willow wisp.

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It says here in folklore, a willow the wisp or

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a willow wisp or ignis fatuous Latin for foolish flame

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is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travelers at night,

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especially over bogs, swamps or marshes. And I want to

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say this phrase willow wisp is more popular in European cultures.

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It says.

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The phenomenon is known yet in the United Kingdom by

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a variety of names, including jack O Lantern, Fire's lantern,

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and hinky punk. That's cute, hinky punk, and is said

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to mislead and or guide travelers by resembling a flickering

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lamp or lantern. Equivalents of the willow of the wisp

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appear in European folklore by various names again Ignos fatuous, few,

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foyete ir Licht, or ear wish in Germany. I'm probably

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butchering those European names, but again this says that in folklore,

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willow the wisps are typically attributed as ghosts, fairies, or

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elemental spirits meant to reveal a path or direction. These

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wisps are portrayed as dancing or flowing in a static

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form until noticed or followed, in which case they visually

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fade or disappear. Modern science explain the light aspect as

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natural phenomena such as bioluminescence or chem iluminescence caused by

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the oxidation of phosphine, dephosphane and methane produced by organic decay.

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I'm a scientist, babe. Basically this is saying, and this

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comes up in one of the other sources that we

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have here, that this can also be a naturally occurring phenomena.

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The conditions, I think typically.

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Have to be perfect.

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You know. It's one of those things where you see

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like a halo of a rainbow around the sun. You know,

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the conditions have to be just right for you to

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see something like that. And it seems like when people

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see this kind of real life again, bioluminescence or chemiluminescence,

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it's you know, light that's produced by naturally occurring instances.

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This idea of it being produced by organic decay. It's

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going to come up one of the other links. Let's

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see if it's this next one here. I'm not sure

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it'll come up. We're going to go through either way

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and then I'll reference it again. But this next one

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that I have here, this is from Doldo Uruy dot

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Nex and this is Legends and Superstitions La luis mala.

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This says, here's it's the first sentence I knew it

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was coming up. It says when an animal or plant

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decomposes on the ground or is buried very close to

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the surface, it often occurs that it emits nitrogen and

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gas shaped phosphorus. Again, this is translated from Spanish. This

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bacterial decomposition looks green or fluorescent blue at night and

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as if loosening above the ground, or I read it

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in Spanish too, it's as if like it's floating right

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above the ground, sometimes describing waving movements again that kind

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of flickering like a flame movement or like a lantern.

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And sometimes it's emobile, it's just kind of static in

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one spot. It is common to see these lights at

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again cemeteries and fields and Uruguay, it's popularly known as

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la lusmla. And this is kind of repeating everything from

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that first source that we had here. But again I

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thought it was really interesting that this is again it's

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a naturally occurring thing, and it's it's interesting that there's

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this like supernatural element to something decaying, to the idea

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of death. You know, it's like a direct result of death.

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If I don't know, if if you can follow my

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thought process, So because something died, this naturally occurring phenomena

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00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.359
happens that people interpret as supernatural or paranormal. I just

470
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.279
think it's really cool, and I think it'd be really

471
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:20.160
cool to see this in person, knowing that it is

472
00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:21.279
what it is.

473
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:21.720
I don't know.

474
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:25.119
I just wonder if scientists, if there are any scientists

475
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:29.599
out there, biologists, chemists, forensic scientists, if there is a

476
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.039
way to recreate this phenomena, let me know, I would

477
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:35.640
love to see it, or maybe someone has already done

478
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:36.640
it and it's online.

479
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:37.519
I think it'd be really cool.

480
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:39.559
I mean, because we know how it can happen, So

481
00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:41.599
I'm like, can y'all just recreate it so we can

482
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:43.799
see what it looks like. But I'm thinking it would

483
00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:46.759
look like the light would look like when you see

484
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:49.720
that like bioluminescent algae. You know, we've all kind of

485
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.640
seen those videos of waves crashing or people running their

486
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.079
fingers through the water and it lights up at night

487
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:58.759
because of that kind of bioluminescent those biluminescent organisms in

488
00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:01.880
the water. I'm assuming it's that same kind of glowing effect.

489
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.680
The next source that we have here is from Journey

490
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:09.079
Latin America dot com. This is just it's an entry

491
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:13.480
that says Halloween inspired Latin America's spookiest myths. So there's

492
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:17.039
a list of something things that we've covered here. Eltraco

493
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:22.279
is here from Chile, Chupacabra is here, Elthio from Bolivia's here,

494
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.079
and then of course LUs Mala Argentina and Uruguay. This

495
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.960
says LUs Mala, one of the most prolific myths in

496
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:32.839
Argentine and Uruguayan history, dates back to the period when

497
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:37.240
indigenous tribes still thrived in these two countries. Literally translated

498
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.079
as evil light, the phenomenon takes the form of will

499
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:44.039
of the wisp again as we mentioned, or atmospheric ghost

500
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:47.759
lights which dance vividly on barren landscape. Legend has it

501
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:50.400
that the light is a soul broken out of the

502
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:54.240
celestial sphere, crying in pain. So again this sort of

503
00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:57.880
like quote out of order soul that is seeking justice

504
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:02.559
or possibly revenge for an untimely or violent death. Right,

505
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:05.960
this continues. This light is thought to emanate deadly gases,

506
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.680
a product of decomposed bones. Okay, this is the next

507
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:10.119
part of this that I was excited to get into

508
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.839
because in the story, you know, even after Julian's death,

509
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.839
his body was just kind of left there like rigid cold.

510
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.160
You know, it killed him. He died, right, So these

511
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:21.680
gases can kill whatever these willow wisps.

512
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.119
Are made of, or they emanate it.

513
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:25.799
This gas is deadly, right, But this idea, it says

514
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:28.359
a product of decomposed bones, and it's gonna mention it,

515
00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:31.960
I think, if not in this source, in the next one.

516
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:35.079
But this says according to the Gauchos who traditionally dominate

517
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:38.400
these barren planes, this loos Mala appears during the driest

518
00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:41.680
times of year, as with many mythical stories involving a

519
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:44.759
brilliant light. The myth suggests that men have been tempted

520
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:47.319
to venture towards the source of the light, only to

521
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.440
find broken pottery remnants containing human remains. However, it is

522
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:54.319
worth noting that when the bright, sparkling light appears at

523
00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:56.400
the foot of a hill, it is thought to point

524
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.519
to buried treasure, which only the bravest can uncover that mine.

525
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:02.240
I'm going to look through my notes on my phone

526
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:04.319
because I want to say I jotted something now that

527
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:05.839
my mom was telling me that I think y'all would

528
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.519
find really interesting that Now thinking of this, it reminds me,

529
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.319
and I'm pretty sure you all will remember some of

530
00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:13.319
you have sent this to me before, if I've ever

531
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.640
looked into it. And I think after seeing this, I

532
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:17.640
want to dedicate an episode to it. But it's those

533
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.079
what are they called. I need y'all to leave a comment,

534
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.079
either on Spotify or on social media or something. There

535
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.359
is a tree, there's these specific trees and it incorporates

536
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:30.000
this like a flame that is near the foot of

537
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.160
the tree, and there's like treasure or something. Just if

538
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.200
y'all know what trees I'm talking about, please let me know.

539
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:34.680
Remind me.

540
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.039
Although I know you've sent it in before, okay, but

541
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.640
that's it for that. So I want to see if

542
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.680
it'll say in this next source that idea of that

543
00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:43.519
like treasure or whatever it is.

544
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:44.119
Okay.

545
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:49.480
This next source is from wikifandom Mitohia dot fandom dot com.

546
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.640
The entry is titled of course Luis Mala or bed

547
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.039
Light again. This was a source that was originally the

548
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:57.519
Spanish translated to English, but it says here Luis mala

549
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.720
is also called fatuous fire. Double bluff, manding bluff, or

550
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:04.559
Andy's bluff is one of the most famous myths of

551
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:09.200
folklore in again Argentina and Uruguay. Again it's talking about

552
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:11.319
the light here though it has a detail, and it's

553
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:13.960
mentioned in the story too that the light could also

554
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.720
be red or white, and in some other sources there's

555
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:20.680
like a varying kind of there's a spectrum of colors

556
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.119
that this light can be from, like blues to greens,

557
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:25.720
and now we have reds and whites. And then earlier

558
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:28.359
sources right said that the greener the light is, the

559
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:32.920
more kind of evil or a sinister or the more

560
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.039
severe of an omen it is. And I want to

561
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:38.480
say here they say that red is that kind of

562
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.160
color too, So red and green Christmas Santa rearranged letters Satan.

563
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.119
It's a sign anyway. Sorry, this continues.

564
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.440
Legend says that the light it can be still, it

565
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.440
can move at great speed. They're often feared again because

566
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.960
it is a soul in sorrow. It's a deceased person

567
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.960
who didn't This one says they received no Christian burial.

568
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.599
So now we know that this light la Lusmala is

569
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:05.599
the soul of someone. It's a disturbed soul. And there

570
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.000
are many reasons, and I'm sure it's not limited to

571
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:08.599
these reasons.

572
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:09.519
But the ones who've seen.

573
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.119
So far is they didn't receive a Christian burial or

574
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.920
a proper burial, and those things are not mutually exclusive.

575
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.199
It was someone who died violently or suddenly, or maybe

576
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:23.960
they're seeking justice or a combination of any and all

577
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.599
of those things.

578
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:24.880
Right.

579
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:28.599
This says again, if someone encounters the light, firearms are useless,

580
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:32.000
So don't bring guns to a light fight. Bring a knife,

581
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.320
right because it also says to bite on the handle

582
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:34.920
of the knife.

583
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:36.280
The one thing that I wanted.

584
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:38.840
To see here that I want to talk about here. Okay,

585
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:41.280
So this says that usually no one digs where the

586
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:43.840
light comes out of. So if it's floating above one

587
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.599
spot on the ground that you can dig there, there

588
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.519
might possibly be something, but people are kind of wary

589
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.559
because it can also be dangerous. So this says that

590
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.320
a few who have seen the light and they've dug

591
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.679
in those areas, they've found metal objects, pieces of indigenous pottery.

592
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.639
Sometimes they say that there's deadly gas. So if there's

593
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:04.960
like a container or something, or even maybe it's just

594
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.360
like a pocket of gas underground, and like if you

595
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:09.519
dig into it, that gas, you know, it'll come out

596
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:12.199
and hit you in the face and it could kill you. Right,

597
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.920
So people advise against either against doing that, or if

598
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:17.960
you're going to do it, you know, cover your mouth

599
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:20.440
or hold your breath until like you know, everything's all

600
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.119
clear and you've gone away, Like I guess you got

601
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.400
to just move fast, right, so you don't breathe in

602
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.159
potentially dangerous gases that are trapped underground. This also continues.

603
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.679
A white light that appears at the foot of the

604
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.400
hill is good and where it is hovering above. You

605
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.760
need to put like a dagger or a marker or

606
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.079
something on the ground there, and that you can go

607
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.679
there the next morning during the daytime, and that you

608
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.880
can find gold and silver treasure. Right. And it says

609
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.639
from red light that you should flee or pray the

610
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.199
rosary because it's said to be a bad light and

611
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.920
a temptation from the devil. So again we see this

612
00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.280
these two different again, the spectrum of light and good

613
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:02.039
and evil so blues and white lights are typically kind

614
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:05.320
of safe or they're just there, right, and then the

615
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.079
red and green lights are the evil ones, the dangerous ones.

616
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:13.360
And I wouldn't okay, I wouldn't even know where to google.

617
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.079
But it reminds me of an experiment that I did

618
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.159
in high school, which was many years ago, where over

619
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:23.199
the Bunsen burners are teacher how to burn like different chemicals,

620
00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:26.239
and each chemical produced a different color. And I'm pretty

621
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.039
sure I can remember there was a red, there was

622
00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.840
a blue, there was a green, and I don't know

623
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.840
what white light would be that would look different than

624
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:38.639
the regular flame. But now I'm curious which chemicals caused

625
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:41.559
each color, you know, and for each of those chemicals,

626
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:44.960
what is their level of danger to people? Chemistry teachers,

627
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.800
if you're out there. I wish I was better when

628
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:51.480
I was in chemistry, that I paid closer attention, But

629
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.599
I don't know. I wonder if there's a connection there, right,

630
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:56.119
because now we're going into science right where people are

631
00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:58.639
saying that it's dangerous to dig in these spots because

632
00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:01.280
there could be pockets of gas trapped if that gas

633
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:04.960
is producing a flame in different colors like or depending

634
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.519
on which kind of gas it is, right? And like,

635
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:10.079
what is what colors produce white and blue that are

636
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:13.480
not as dangerous as the gases that produce the colors

637
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:14.519
green and red.

638
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.880
I don't know if you followed any of that. I

639
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:17.760
really hope you did.

640
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.559
And we're gonna have to run the Soustos science class

641
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:24.159
and see what happens. Have to run some experiments. This continues.

642
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.000
It says it is now accepted that the myth has

643
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.800
its origin in the real phenomena of fatuous fire, which

644
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:32.320
is you know what we just went over. It's like

645
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.800
a naturally occurring phenomenon. It's a quote biogas again, we

646
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:39.840
saw it was bioluminescent or chemi luminescent. So biologically luminescent

647
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.360
or chemically luminescent. I think I'm saying that right. I

648
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.719
think I'm a scientist. You guys, maybe I will run

649
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:50.679
my own experiment again. It mentions that that decomposition and

650
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:55.559
oxidization of bacteria. Whoa, you guys, my brain is so

651
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.320
big anyway, that that natural decomposition can so some times

652
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.159
produced this luminessence. You see, this is what happens when

653
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:07.440
I read fancy three dollar words, is that what they

654
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:07.760
call it.

655
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.920
Though that's three dollar word. Has anybody heard that phrase?

656
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.320
I don't know.

657
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:12.039
You see, I have my good moments where I sound

658
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:14.039
really smart, and then I have other moments where I

659
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:16.719
sound not so really smart. Anyway, this is what I

660
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.000
wanted to talk about here. This part is It says

661
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.079
it may also be the result of the reflection of

662
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.679
the moonlight and the bones of dead cows, like when

663
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:25.840
you see it in a field. So I tried looking

664
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.719
this up and I didn't see anything about cowbones being

665
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:33.599
more reflective than any other bones. I think it's just

666
00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:35.719
because you know, in a field there, what do you

667
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.000
think when you see a field cows? Right, If a

668
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:40.440
cow has died out there and their bones are there,

669
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:43.679
it's going to be this probably white bone in a

670
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.119
patch of either dark dirt or grass. So in the

671
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:48.920
full moon, the light will bounce off of that, right,

672
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:50.920
because it's white. That's just how that works. So maybe

673
00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:52.920
that's what it's talking about. But the reason I was

674
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.480
interested in talking about this is because it says that

675
00:38:56.079 --> 00:39:00.880
some people may interpret the loose mala as a thing

676
00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:05.159
that eats also because then when they go to this

677
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:08.159
spot where they saw this glowing they find these bones,

678
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:10.159
and that's kind of what this the rest of the

679
00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:12.320
source is saying, is like, oh, we saw something glowing

680
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.400
in the spot last night, and so we came to

681
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.360
check it out today. The sun is out right, and

682
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.559
there's a pile of cowbones. So there that light that

683
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:22.800
was here, it was a thing that ate versus the

684
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:25.880
light that they saw was the bones themselves, just reflecting

685
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.320
the moonlight off of them. If that makes any sense too.

686
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:30.039
It makes sense to me where I'm like, oh, yeah,

687
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.400
I could see someone maybe kind of making up a

688
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.679
story in their head, right a when in reality again,

689
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.000
it was just the moonlight hitting the bones and then

690
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.400
they make up a scary story around it, which we love. Right.

691
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:43.440
And then the last thing here, it's a YouTube video.

692
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:47.119
I I might just throw it here in the Patreon video,

693
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:48.920
but if you also want to look it up, if

694
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.360
you go to YouTube and you search the video La

695
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:58.679
Luce malaretos, it's like it's a one minute video. And honestly,

696
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.920
like fifty seconds of this video are just title and

697
00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:06.000
exit credits for some reason, and you can tell this

698
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.599
is like a homemade video. Is published in two thousand

699
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.239
and seven from de la Patio de la patillo what's

700
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:16.480
that Caliucci song? And it says in Escumento exclusivo de

701
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:22.119
coronica tva istoria de la LUs Mala. And to me,

702
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:26.440
it looks like someone made their version of like a mockumentary,

703
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:28.719
like a scary Like it's a scene from a scary

704
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.880
video where they're encountering lalus Mala.

705
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:32.800
Right, it's I.

706
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.079
Mean again, go watch it laalus Mala vea on YouTube.

707
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:40.039
And the first like opening credit, it's like a red

708
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:44.000
background with white letters and it says momento. It's really dramatic,

709
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but you can tell someone was like, oh, let's let's

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