Aug. 15, 2024

La Taconuda

La Taconuda

Walk a mile in these Louboutins! In this episode, Ayden tells the story of La Taconuda, a legend from Honduras and Cuba. La Taconuda is a vengeful spirit who haunts the streets, particularly targeting taxi drivers. The story is rooted in tales of lost...

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Walk a mile in these Louboutins! In this episode, Ayden tells the story of La Taconuda, a legend from Honduras and Cuba. La Taconuda is a vengeful spirit who haunts the streets, particularly targeting taxi drivers. The story is rooted in tales of lost love, betrayal, and tragic accidents.

Want to share your own creepy story, picture, or recording? Leave a 5 star review with your story attached, email Ayden at sustopodcast@gmail.com, DM on social media, or visit SustoPodcast.com to be shared on the show!

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Hey, 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 ooky spooky scary story centered on paranormal

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folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures.

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Welcome back.

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Thank you so much for being here, and if this

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is your first time, welcome, thank you for joining us.

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We're glad that you're finally here. All right, cool friends. So,

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last episode we wrapped up the Grandismo series. I know

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that I had I think maybe one more suggestion, but

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I'm gonna save that for later. But still, if you

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have any suggestions or leads on Grandettes, please send those in.

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If you happen to know of anybody, whether it's a

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personal connection or someone that you heard of, I would always,

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of course love to hear from you all. Speaking of

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hearing from you all, I'm just going to get it

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out of the way. If you have your own scary

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story that you would like me to share Annie letters

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from the Beyond episode, you can do so by you

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already know how sending me an email hitting the contact

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button on the website sustalpodcast dot com, Sending me a

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DM on any social media platform, that's at sustal podcast,

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or by leaving a five story review on Apple Podcasts

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or leaving a comment on Spotify. Also, as you may

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have heard me say in that last episode, you can

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also send in a voice message.

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So if you visit the.

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Website again, sustopodcast dot com, on the right hand side

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of the page, whether you're on mobile or on a computer,

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there's going to be kind of a little tab sticking

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out on the right side that says send me a

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voicemail or something like that. Hit that button and you

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can send in your own recording if you want to

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tell your own story using your own voice. As a reminder,

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it doesn't have to be a scary story. If you

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have a photo, video, audio recording, anything that you think

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is spooky that I should share either on the show

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or on social media, send it in those ways as well, y'all.

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I don't know if you saw.

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I just remembered because I was talking about the social

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media pages, but I went a little viral on TikTok recently.

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I uploaded a video of me and my cat Margaret,

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and I did the a Quiet Place challenge if you will,

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where I said, this is my cat Margaret I'm gonna

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see if you would survive in a quiet place, and

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I ran with her and immediately even before we started

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the test, she failed. But that video now it has

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over like eight million views, which is wild to me,

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also very ironic. All this work that I try to

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put into making those videos on TikTok were like coming

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up with ideas to do things on there, about to

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the show itself and about the stories. And the thing

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that goes viral is my cat. She goes viral before me.

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But you know what, she has star quality. Apparently she's

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just got it. She's got the X factor. So she's

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earning her rent in our house now. Finally, you know,

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I did tell her to get a job, So now

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she's an influencer, I guess.

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But if you haven't seen that, go check it out.

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It is. It's pretty cute, she's adorable.

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And now my TikTok page is basically a Margaret page,

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So if you haven't seen her before, go check her

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out there, you all. We are approaching the Ber months,

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as they are calling them, so September, October, November, December

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my favorite months because it gets cooler and because it's

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spooky season. And with that of course, Sustill will start

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making appearances. I will claw my way out of the

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grave and into the living world. I have a few

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things lined up, but the one that I've started promoting

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already is the night Owl Spirit Fest. So one of

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my favorite podcasts, the night Owl Podcast, they are putting

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on for the very first time, the inaugural Spirit Fest,

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and we are going to have an amazing lineup of panels.

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There are going to be some super cool vendors there.

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It's just gonna be a really fun experience. Again, that's

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going to be here in Austin on October twelve. I've

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started posting about that on social media, so if you

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haven't seen it, go check it out. It's going to

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be so much fun. But again, follow social media for

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any and all updates. You know, a spooky season approaches,

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some people get really interested in bringing me out from

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the other side. So yeah, just up on there and

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you'll see where I'm going to be in I will

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keep mentioning it. Don't worry, it looks like I don't

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have any other updates for this show. I'm excited for

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this episode in particular because it feels like a return to.

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The Soustal formula.

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We've been kind of exploring different formats of episodes with

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the Gudandaisma series that was more about like history and culture,

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but this one, of course, is gonna reflect on that.

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But it's also just a good scary story. I'm so

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excited to tell you. And additionally, this is an original story.

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I've said this before. I'm not a writer. I don't

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credit myself as a writer, but this story, I wrote

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it from scratch just because I was so inspired when

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I was reading all of the sources and it just

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made me excited and I just kind of imagined it

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like a movie. So you all feel free to leave

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me feedback. I would love to call myself a writer

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more often, but yeah, this is an original story. So

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I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you

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think in the comments, in the reviews, in the dms, anything,

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Just let me know what you think. If you have

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any feedback, welcome at constructed criticism. Please don't just bully me.

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I will cry, but without further ado. Today I'm telling

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you the story of La Takuda. Almah was on Cloud nine.

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It was her and her boyfriend's anniversary and she knew

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it was the night he would finally ask her to

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be his wife, or so she hoped. Their plan was

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to meet at the final stop of his shift as

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a bus driver. From there, they would drive to the station,

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get in his car, and enjoy the evening that would

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mark the beginning of their new life. She slipped on

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her nicest dress, styled her long silky black hair, made

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her makeup the way she knew he liked it, and

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slid on her favorite pair of heels. The bus stop

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was a short walk from her home, but Almah's excitement

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made her feel as if she couldn't get there fast enough.

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The whole way there, she imagined how he would ask

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her what food they would serve at their wedding, how

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handsome he'd look in a tuxedo. When Almah finally arrived

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at the bus stop, she was left speechless. Her lover

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adorned his bus with string lights, their song played softly

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from its intercom. He stood at the door of his

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five ton steed, dressed in his own best, holding a bouquet.

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Alma was right.

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She knew in her heart, in her soul that he

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was going to propose. Her smile stretched across her face,

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illuminated by the glow of the lights. As he began

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to profess his eternal love to her. He was nervous,

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like she knew he'd be, But at last he reached

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the end of his speech, Alma, he said, what I'm

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trying to tell you to ask you is will you care?

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A piercing screech tore through their song, interrupting his final words.

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The lights grew brighter, blinding them. Before they could realize

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what it was, A bright yellow car blazed through the

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red light at the intersection. It missed one car, then

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the next, before slamming into the nose of the bus,

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pinning Almah's would be fiance in its doorway, where he

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stood only seconds before. Almah's lover was dead on impact.

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When first responders arrived, she was frozen in place, eyes wide, shaking,

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and quietly crying. She's in shock, someone shouted. As medics

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attended to her, trying to get her to respond. She

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overheard an officer telling another the taxi driver is going

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to make it. He said he was distracted by the girl,

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missed the red light and swore through traffic. Although she

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was physically untouched, Almah felt a pain so deep and agonizing,

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an excruciating sensation that never left her. Days later, Almah

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was found unresponsive in her home, still in her dress,

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her makeup she knew he liked and her favorite heels.

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In the following weeks after her and her lover's passing,

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taxi drivers throughout the city reported strange events. Footsteps in

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empty streets, a serial fair evader who seemingly vanished into

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thin air, leaving only traces of perfume behind. Strangest of all,

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and what made drivers and their shifts before sundown was

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the deaths of four taxi drivers. But these stories didn't stop.

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Oscar recently kicked out of his girlfriend's apartment when she

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discovered his infidelity. He needed quick money for his own place.

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He knew there was a driver shortage and took advantage

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of the situation. It wasn't long before Oscar fell witness

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to a bizarre late night incident. In the dead of night,

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he pulled over on a quiet, stone paved road to

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take his break. Oscar rolled down his window to enjoy

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the cool breeze. He hummed along to the song playing

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faintly on his radio. He was tired afterwards, looking days

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on end and late into the nights, he was nodding off.

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When he woke, startled by the sound of footsteps right

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by his car, but the road stood empty still. He

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could hear what sounded like high heels on stone in

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the distance. Brushing it off, he started his car, and

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as the headlights came on, he jumped again. Standing in

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front of his car was a woman. Hey, beautiful, Nita, ride,

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he asked with a chuckle. Silently, she walked over to

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the back passenger side of his car. The vehicle's door

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opened and shut.

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Where we're going to night?

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Gorgeous, he asked in a low, barely audible voice. She

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gave him an address, He plugged it into his GPS,

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started the fair meter, and they left. Oscar tried to

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make small talk, but was met with silence. His questions

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became more and more personal. What do you do for fun?

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Do you have a boyfriend? Ever been at this cafe here?

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I could take you sometime. I'll take your number when

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I drop you off. What are you doing out so late?

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Looking so nice?

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Huh? Eventually Oscar became enraged when she would not answer.

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You know, he said, you could stand to be more polite.

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His GPS interrupted him with an alert, you.

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Are approaching your destination.

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More frustrated now, he turned to continue. When a man

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is being nice to a pretty lady like you, you

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should show some gratitude. As he turned to face the

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beautiful stranger, he exclaimed, You're not even that pretty. The

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glint of her blade caught his eye, and before he

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could continue, she plunged it deep into his neck. His

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car continued to roll slowly down the road. He began

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to lose consciousness when he noticed the song playing was

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the same one as when he pulled over earlier, a

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song about lost love. The music began to loop and

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glitch in a way he'd never heard before. In his

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final moments without a sound, the woman vanished and the

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smell of perfume filled his car. He could taste blood

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pooling in his mouth. He could see a hazy glow

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from above, the light from a bus stop. Welcome back

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with Friends. Okay again, that was an original story.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

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It was very easy to write this story because there

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were there were good like bits and pieces about this

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story that already existed, and I kind of just took

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those things and instead of piecing those things together, I like,

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you know, the meme of that lady with the numbers

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floating around her face doing the math. That's me right now,

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trying to explain what writing is to you. But anyway, okay,

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So to get into it from what I saw, the

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sources that I used really heavily is this story is

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based out of Ondudas, more specifically in the I think

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it's the capital of Hondudas. Yes, the capital Degusi Gaapa.

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And actually when I went to Honduda's, I was very

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close to the capital, to Sigalpa.

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I am sad that I didn't hear this story. I

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don't think.

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I don't know if I was doing Susto then yet

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maybe that was during my hiatus. I'm not sure, but

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I wish I had thought to ask or like to

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ask about scary stories. But also we were with a

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bunch of little kids, and so I'm sure that they

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didn't want to scare them. But anyway, so this story

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is based again out of the Usial and Das, and

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so we're gonna go through the sources here. Again, the

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direct links to the sources are in the Susto Google doc.

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So the first one that I have here is from

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Rivista Chilena delta ratura and it's a it's an academic

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article that looks like from Universidad de Chyenne, Espana. And

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this article is titled the Weeping Woman, the Sejanaba and

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other female ghosts typological configuration and legendary motifs okay, And.

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There's just a snippet.

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This is like, of course, an entire article about all

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of these types of as I like to call them

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here on Susto cryptid fems. But they bring up the

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specific instance of the takuda in English. I think it's

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just like a woman wearing heels, yeah, or like high heels,

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but in this instance it's latak know that as a

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woman or a person wearing high heels. This stimpet of

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this article says, on the other hand, there are stories

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that only describe the appearance of ghostly women on the

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road without adding the reason for the driver who put

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her in the car. Quote, a large light crossed in

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front of our car, and out of nowhere, when we

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turned to look, we saw women dressed in white. She

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was illuminated and looked half blurry because of so much

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light shining on her, to which is added in this

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endurant exhibition of the explanation of the reason for her death.

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Quote.

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A gas station worker told us that this ghost is

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of a woman who died in a car accident. He

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told us that she was with her family in a

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car and they flipped. The man says that.

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Only she died.

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These types of apparitions are characterized as malignant beings in

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many of the stories, as is this exhibition also from

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hondudas quote. When someone is driving alone downhill, that is

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when the driver turns to look in the rearview mirror,

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and it is at this very moment that the woman appears.

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That ghost has caused all kinds of accidents. Here Jarvis

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lose control and crash. There's another part here, but before that.

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This reminds me of stories like is it like the

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Is it the Donkey Lady Bridge. I think I remember

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growing up as if anyone listening is from the Rio

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Grande Valley. There's this stretch of road I think it's

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one oh seven in Edinburgh, like on the edge of

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or the outskirts of Edinburgh, and they would say that

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you there was there was a y I think it

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was a convenience store called the Why out there, but

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they said that if when you if you drove past

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that late at night, that you would see a beautiful

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woman on the side of the road, and that you

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were supposed to offer her a ride, but before you

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got to the destination or when you like looked back,

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she wouldn't be there anymore.

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She would vanish.

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And they said that a different version of that same

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story was that if you saw her and you did

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not offer her a ride, that when you looked in

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the rearview mirror, she would be in your back seat

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and she would have the face of a horse.

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I think I may have mentioned this in the.

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Episode of The Donkey Lady Bridge, because this idea of

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a horse or a equine kind of shaped face is

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something I think that we see repeated in these types

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of stories. Okay, but this continues the same context serves

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as a framework for some legends about the Takududa told Induras.

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According to the testimony of informant from the Gusigalpa, she

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is the girlfriend of a bus driver who died when

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his vehicle collided with a taxi. Since then, her ghost

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has wandered the streets looking for taxi drivers to take

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revenge on. When the taxi drivers pick her up. They

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look at her, and when they turn around to collect

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their fare, she was no longer there, and she doesn't

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make any noise or anything to get out. They say

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that when they turn around to look back, she is

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already there with a knife and stabs them and kills them.

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They say that she has already killed about four taxi drivers.

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That was a story from someone, and it continues. In

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other Ondurdan stories, she is described as the ghost of

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a woman with high heels who is murdered in the

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streets by an individual who tried to abuse her. As

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in certain versions of Layorona, this figure is also associated

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with the motif of the contradictory perception of the feeling

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of danger and the proximity of sound. So I tried

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to add that in the story, because again this is

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I think what we see with like Elsi Lan. I

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think some people have said this about Lichusa's or other

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kind of cryptids, is that the closer there sound is

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so with and it's the whistling with la, It's it's

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her weeping with Lata, it's her high heels. The closer

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that you hear her, the further away that she is

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versus the further away that she is. That means that

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she's actually nearby. So this just kind of echoes that

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it says. They also say that when footsteps are heard nearby,

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it means that Latakunuda is already far away, but if

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the footsteps were heard far away, it means that she

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is approaching. So again, I don't know what it is

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with this. Maybe I think maybe it's just a trope

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that people use in these kinds of stories, is to

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add this element of confusion or disorientation. It makes it

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more dangerous because you think you're safe because you would think, Okay,

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it's far away, I can hear as far away, but

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that's not the truth. That's when you let your guard down,

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you're more vulnerable and that's when they get you. Right.

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So yeah, just these kinds of I think interesting connections

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between these stories of women on the side of the road,

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like hitchhikers or whatever. But this one was interesting because

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there's a distinct story or a distinct cause for the

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reason that she haunts, right is that and I guess

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tegically there's two is. Some people say that she witnessed

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her her boyfriend, her lover being killed by a taxi driver.

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I think some people also go so far as to

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say that the reason that the taxi driver, and that's

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why I included it in the story, the reason that

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the taxi driver collided with the bus is because he

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was distracted because he was looking at her, and so

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she I guess eventually, either she dies of a broken heart, maybe.

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She dies by suicide.

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It's not clear how she passes, but her spirit is

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still so unsettled and so upset that she takes it

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upon her to seek revenge on any taxi drivers, which

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sorry taxi drivers, but if you're out there, be careful,

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and maybe you know that's it falls into that realm

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of the types of stories that are meant to discipline

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us or to keep us in check. So I guess

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then you could say that the takeaway from the story

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is don't be a distracted driver, because if you're distracted

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and you're looking around, you're gonna see it a talk

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that she's going to get you. And also plot twist,

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maybe this one is for the women and for the femmes,

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and the story now is don't objectify women. Don't be

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staring at women like pieces of meat and objects in

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the street, because if you do. She's going to get

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in your car and she's going to get you, and

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then in some versions she just simply disappears when they

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make it to the destination. So again, if you're not distracted,

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if you're keeping your eyes forward on the road, then

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you're fine. So the next source that I have here

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is from it's a blog called de Wustounduras and this

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is again about taxi drivers, but it also includes story

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of someone just doing chores late at night, So again

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it could be the whole thing of don't be out

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late at night. This one's kind of a short one.

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It says a neighbor from the Kennedy neighborhood tells of

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an encounter with a woman in high heels. It happened

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one night, as he was used to staying out late

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at night in the blocks. He started smoking a cigarette

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and it was almost three am. The atmosphere was calm.

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Suddenly the wind started to get colder than usual, and

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then he heard footsteps approaching. But with the sound of heels,

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he saw the silhouette of a woman coming. He didn't

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pay attention to it. What surprised him later was that

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the woman wasn't moving. All he could hear was the

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clicking of heels. Immediately, he felt a chill run through

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his entire body, and without thinking twice, he ran out

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and in the distance he continued to hear the footsteps

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of heels as if they were following him. He entered

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his house and from that day on he tried not

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to wander around late at night. So again, behave stay home,

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don't be out late at night, because the la tachunuda

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will get you. Another event that occurred in the same

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neighborhood in the blocks of Zone two, tells us that

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a young man was doing tasks in the early morning hours,

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approximately at one forty am, and that in front of

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the house he suddenly heard the sound of heels. He

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thought it was a neighbor who worked late and had

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just arrived home, But the strange thing was that the

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sound was short, only a few footsteps, and he did

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not hear any door open. Later, on another day of

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the same week, he had to repeat the same thing,

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staying doing chores in the living room of the house,

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and almost at the same time, he heard the same

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footsteps of heels again, and immediately, out of curiosity, he

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positioned himself to observe through a hole in the door,

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while the sound of the footsteps came closer, hoping to

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be able to see who it was when they passed

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exactly in front.

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Of the house.

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But such was his astonishment when he heard the sound

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so close, as if someone was walking in heels in

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front of the door, and did not see anyone, not

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even a silhouette. And to top it off, the blocks

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looked clear, and the young man felt an intense fear

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that he couldn't finish his task and instead went to

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his room to try and calm down. Could it be

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an evil ghost, a soul in pain, or simply a woman.

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This page was originally in Spanish was translated into English,

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so sorry if it sounded a little clunky, that's just

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Google Translate. And then again, there's another short version of

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the taxi driver kind of version. This one happens in

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another city in Honduras called don Lee, and it says

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this event happens in the city of the hills don Lee.

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It is the taxi drivers who narrate this mysterious event.

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They say that late at night, they're working on the

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streets looking for passengers, and they see a beautiful young

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woman wearing high heels stop them and they take her.

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She starts talking to the driver and says that she's

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coming from a part and it's late and she's going home.

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The taxi driver is driving according to the address that

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the young woman indicated, and suddenly he no longer sees

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her in the back seat, but instead she is walking

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on the sidewalk without realizing when she got out. There

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are several taxi drivers who have gone through the same

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experience without knowing the explanation for it. One of them

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supposes that it could be the sole in pain of

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a young woman who is perhaps assaulted and murdered when

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leaving a party. But the strange thing is that nobody

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knows her despite the descriptions and the detail that she

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is wearing very high heels. And I'm reading this verbatim.

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It says many taxi drivers no longer do the night

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route very often for fear of this occurrence, since one

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of their colleagues went quote crazy because of it. One

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of the drivers says that he pays close attention to

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who stopped him, and if he sees that it is

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a beautiful young woman in a party dress and especially

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with high heels, he does not let her get in

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and speeds up. So he's just like, nope, sorry, sorry, okay,

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so so sorry to all the pretty ghouls in high

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heels like me, we just apparently can't get a ride.

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I think what I really like about this story is

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that when you strip kind of everything away from it,

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it's saying leave women alone, leave women alone when they're

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walking at night. Unfortunately, it's like, well, no, they should

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still get a ride. They need a ride home maybe,

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but yeah, I don't know. It adds this element of

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danger to approaching women late at night on the street,

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which I am one of those people where if I'm walking,

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I will cross the road I will not make you

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have to walk by me or near me, especially.

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If it's in the evening.

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And I'd never even heard the story of the Takunuda

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before putting this episode together. The next source that I

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have here is this looks like it is a thesis

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by two folks. One of them was referenced in the

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first source that I had here. It's by Martinezreez and

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Fernanda Maria, and this is an oral narrative in Honduras

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New explorations at the beginning of the twenty first century.

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So this thing is kind of spread out across different places,

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but if you start to that you should be able

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to find it. There's a PDF that I found of it,

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and I have here the specific pages that I wanted

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to reference. Okay, So in this thesis, it looks like

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they collected various anecdotes from people about all these different

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kinds of folklore and stories from people in Ondudas. But

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this one, a couple sections I wanted to references about

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Lata gun Nuda. So the one here is collected by

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this woman named Stephanie Ferrufino, who is from the Saint

473
00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:20.799
Lawrence Valley in Onduas, and it's just her telling basically

474
00:23:20.839 --> 00:23:24.319
the same story about the taxi drivers. It says that

475
00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:27.119
the taxi drivers don't pick women up at night because

476
00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:29.759
there's a woman called Latakuda. She was the girlfriend of

477
00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.839
a bus driver and that the bus and the taxi

478
00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:35.559
crashed and that he died. This one, actually there's a

479
00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:38.440
slight difference in it. It says that she was also

480
00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:40.599
in the bus and that they crashed all together and

481
00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.720
that she died and so now she, you know, haunts

482
00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.759
the streets. But she was said to have long hair,

483
00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:50.000
that she was attractive, that she wore high heels and

484
00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:53.440
that's why they call her latakunuda, and that in the Gusigapa.

485
00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.119
They say that she comes out in Vianueva, that when

486
00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.240
taxi drivers pick her up they look at her or

487
00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:59.920
when they like try to collect the fair, that she

488
00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:01.960
not there. That she doesn't make any noise, so they

489
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.240
don't hear her getting out of the car.

490
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:04.960
She just vanishes if.

491
00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:07.519
They're distracted and they look back at her while they're driving,

492
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:10.400
that she has a knife and she she kills them.

493
00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:12.759
But the other parts of this that I wanted to read,

494
00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:16.599
This is like a very lengthy document. Yeah, these are

495
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:20.279
just collected from people. This is from someone named Cecilia Mehia,

496
00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:25.160
and she's from the Central and she says that she

497
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.680
was a very tall woman, she was young, she had

498
00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:30.640
long hair, just describing how she looked, that she had

499
00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.440
big lips, that she was dressed in white, and she

500
00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:35.880
wore heels, like super high heels. And they say that

501
00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:37.640
she is a woman that comes out in the middle

502
00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.400
of the night in Tegucigalpa, that people can hear her

503
00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:43.640
taku nasos, that they can hear her high heels in

504
00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:46.759
the streets. Another one that says, oh, and that she

505
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:50.039
leaves a trace of perfume in her trail, that it

506
00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:53.960
just attracts men. And then this next one says it's

507
00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:58.559
called the tragedy La Ta leaves between midnight and three

508
00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:00.200
in the morning in the pedestrian street.

509
00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.039
They say that she was a pretty.

510
00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:04.720
Girl, she had long hair, that she went to a

511
00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.519
party in her dress, in her heels, that she was

512
00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:09.559
on her way back home, that a man assaulted her,

513
00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:13.000
she managed to escape him, she ran away in the

514
00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.079
streets wearing her heels, screaming for someone to help her,

515
00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:17.759
but that no one came out to help her, and

516
00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.200
that the man caught her and he ended up killing her,

517
00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.839
and that now her spirit remains on those streets.

518
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:25.079
That's like the.

519
00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:28.000
Other kind of popular version of this story of Latakunuda

520
00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:29.920
that I keep seeing is that if it's not the

521
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.799
taxi driver, it's that she was assaulted and ultimately murdered,

522
00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.640
and that her spirit, you know, of course, would remain disgruntled. Again,

523
00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:39.920
we bring in this idea that we always talk about

524
00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:43.000
here of traumatic events and how they leave an imprint

525
00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:46.240
of energy. Obviously that would do it right. This last

526
00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:47.839
one on here that was able to find in this

527
00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:52.119
PDF is from someone named Zelenya Eggi Urre from the

528
00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.200
Tumbla in Fra Cisco, Morasan, Okay. So this says that

529
00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.319
that she used to live in a house I think

530
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:01.480
like off of us. I'd walk in that every day

531
00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:04.640
at twelve at night, that they would hear heels in

532
00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:07.839
the streets, and that they sounded like they were quick steps,

533
00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:09.440
like if they were running, and that when they went

534
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:12.039
out to see what it was, they didn't see anybody there.

535
00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.960
They see that only men can see Lataku Nuda and

536
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:18.240
that also when her steps again, when her steps are

537
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.119
heard nearby, it's that she's far but that if the

538
00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:23.759
steps are far away, it's because she's approaching you or

539
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.279
she's nearby. So the next one that I have or

540
00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:29.000
the last one that I have. Actually this is a

541
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:33.039
very different version of this story. This is actually a

542
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.000
story of Lataku Nuda from Cuba. This has nothing to

543
00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.319
do with taxi drivers. It said that her spirit roams

544
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.079
staircases in haunted or abandoned homes. This is something that

545
00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:47.440
was written on medium dot com by a user called

546
00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:50.559
Chaotic Pair. This is actually posted in April of twenty

547
00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.039
twenty four, so very recently. It says Echoes of the Night,

548
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:56.000
exploring the legend of Latako Nuda. And I'm not going

549
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:58.839
to read the entire thing. It's not super long, but

550
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:01.640
it says, step into the shadowy realms of Cuban folklore,

551
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.799
where the legend of Latako Nuda takes center stage. Described

552
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.240
as a ghostly woman clad in black with a veiled

553
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:10.240
face and long flowing hair, Latako Nuda is said to

554
00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:14.200
appear to unsuspecting victims as they ascend or descend staircases.

555
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.000
The only warning of her presence is the faint sound

556
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:20.720
of her high heeled shoes tapping against the steps, drawing

557
00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:23.920
ever closer with each passing moment. As children, you are

558
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.359
warned never to look back as you climb the stairs,

559
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.359
and most important of all, never dally as you go down.

560
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.039
In some versions, she is said to have long nails

561
00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:34.400
that can act like claws, and some have seen her

562
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.839
dressed in all black except for her red heels. Okay,

563
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.839
red bottoms. So again, this is another kind of go

564
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:45.079
warning kind of a story. It's like, be careful in staircases,

565
00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:47.599
don't like look where you're walking, don't be looking around.

566
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:49.480
I'll be messing around on the stairs because if you

567
00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.799
are's gonna get you, which to me would make me

568
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:56.359
want to run up or downstairs right which I don't

569
00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:59.279
think that is the goal, but I would run if

570
00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:01.319
I heard that, I would run so that I wouldn't

571
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:01.880
encounter her.

572
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.319
I don't know.

573
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.440
Another piece of this says, when I was growing up,

574
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.640
my best friend at school came one day retelling her

575
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:09.160
encounter with the entity. She said that she had sneaked

576
00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:10.839
out from home to go to a party and had

577
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:13.559
returned to her building in the early hours of the morning.

578
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:15.599
She was tired and her feet hurt. Since she had

579
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.519
stolen her older sister's heels, it didn't quite fit. As

580
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:20.880
she started to climb to her fourth floor apartment. We

581
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:23.240
do not have many elevators in Cuba, particularly in the

582
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.440
buildings that are less than eight floors, she all of

583
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:28.640
a sudden could hear heels going up the stairs loudly,

584
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.759
with her only problem, the sound was completely different from

585
00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:32.480
her heels.

586
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:33.000
She said.

587
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.759
She started to worry when she heard a female voice

588
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:38.279
start to hum. As a wave of fear rushed through

589
00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:40.400
her and she ready to sprint up the stairs, she

590
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:44.359
heard a very calm but completely inhuman voice say do

591
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.279
not run. With her heart in her throat, she did

592
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.039
her best to quickly but safely get to her floor.

593
00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:52.720
She swears that as she slowly slipped into her home,

594
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:55.640
she heard those high heels begin the descent back down

595
00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:57.480
the building, and a haunting hum.

596
00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:59.160
Softly filled the space. Again.

597
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.799
Again, that would have just made me run if I

598
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:08.160
hear disembodied heels behind me, and then as I'm getting

599
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.920
ready to run, they say, don't run. Guess what I'm doing.

600
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:12.960
I'm a runner, I'm a track star. I am not.

601
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:14.519
I'm not gonna.

602
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:16.920
Listen to whatever that is. I'm going to get out

603
00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:19.359
of there. So this says that I want to read

604
00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:21.440
the origin part of this. It says while the origins

605
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:25.359
remain shrouded in mystery. Some believe her legend is rooted

606
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:28.359
in tales of lost love, betrayal, or tragic accidents that

607
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.720
occurred on staircases. Others suggest she is the vengeful spirit

608
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.359
of a woman wronged, condemned to roam the earth in

609
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:37.720
search of justice, personally growing up. Every version I ever

610
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.519
heard mentioned she had an accident of some sort down

611
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.119
some stairs and now haunted steep or dangerous stairs This

612
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.319
is really cool. I'm actually I'm going to reach out

613
00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:49.519
to this person because they're actively posting and this is

614
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.039
really cool and I would love to hear more about

615
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:55.240
Cuban folklore, so chaotic pair. If you actually are listening,

616
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.960
you feel free to reach out to me, but I'm

617
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.920
going to reach out to you. So yeah, this is

618
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.200
it was really really cool to to come across this one.

619
00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.720
It's again a completely different culture, but it's this idea

620
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:08.880
of a woman's spirit wearing high heels. And let me

621
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.960
tell you something, this is the slayest. This is the

622
00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.759
most slay she is serving giving. She's very demure. You

623
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.359
see how she walks down the stairs slowly. She's demure.

624
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.160
She's not like these other ghouls. She takes her time

625
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:22.480
on the steps. She's very cute.

626
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:23.000
See.

627
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:24.759
I don't know if you've all seen that trend on TikTok,

628
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.680
but I'm obsessed.

629
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:25.960
With it right now.

630
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.200
But yeah, again, just really fun to make these connections

631
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.480
to different cultures. I think this was the only other

632
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.480
one that popped up in the first page of Google

633
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.559
results about a high healed spirit about Lata Gunuda. So

634
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:40.279
if you have your own story about Lata Gunda obviously, always, always,

635
00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:56.640
always feel free to send in your versions.

636
00:30:58.160 --> 00:30:59.359
Welcome back, girlfriends.

637
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:01.720
Honestly, this story just inspired me to make a bunch

638
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:05.200
of tiktoks wearing my heels. I have a collection of heels.

639
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:07.160
I don't know if anybody listening. I don't know if

640
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:08.519
you all know this. I don't know if you know

641
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:11.359
this you listener, But I have a collection of heels

642
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:14.000
that I like to wear heels sometimes when I go out.

643
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.079
When I say I'm GHOULI pop, I mean it. And

644
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:19.480
I don't get a chance to wear them often anymore.

645
00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:22.960
You know, I'm in my thirties. My feet hurt very

646
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:25.759
easily now. But I will say I do marry the heels.

647
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:28.160
I do not take them off again. I'm demrror.

648
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.480
I'm not like these other ghouls.

649
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.720
I don't take my heels off and walk in the

650
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:35.160
streets and the club with my shoes off. I commit

651
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:36.839
to it, and then I don't feel my toes for

652
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.640
a week. But I can just imagine the the funny

653
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.759
tiktoks I can make about Latakunuda and walking to my heels,

654
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:46.799
especially with that sound that's like let it.

655
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.759
Let and then the heels, the clickings of the.

656
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:56.640
I don't know anyway, I'm I feel like I am.

657
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.920
My mind is slowly unraveling, the wrinkles in my brain

658
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.640
smoothing out. I don't know what's happening, but you know it.

659
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.400
But you're here with me, and I appreciate you, and

660
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.759
I'm so grateful. Thank you for spending this time with me.

661
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.759
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685
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687
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688
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689
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the club. Eis bye.