Jan. 8, 2026

Letters From the Beyond 9

Letters From the Beyond 9
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Mariachis! Demons! Ichabod??? The first episode of Susto in 2026 is here and YOU'RE the star! Buckle up for another installment of Letters From the Beyond!



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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

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Sustal in the year twenty twenty six. Oh my god,

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Happy New Year. We made it. We did it. I

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hope that you all had a magical, RESTful winter break.

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I know that I did, and I really really needed it.

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And a huge, huge thank you to Houston Strange Somewhere

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in the Skies, Para Peculiar and ghost Beast for participating

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in the annual Sustal Swapathon, which I feel like is

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it's a win win for everybody, right, Like, it's just

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good business practice for podcasters. It's a good promotional tactic.

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But also I get to share with you creators and

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content that I think that you would like. And it

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also gives me a chance to take a break, to

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reground myself to enjoy my time off. So again, huge

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thank you to them, because without them, I would not

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be able to take that time off. But we are back.

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We made it into the new year, and we are

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easing into the new year with a Letters from the

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Beyond episode. Remember to visit the website sustalpodcast dot com

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or the linktreelinktr dot ee, slash Sustal and click the

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submit story button to send in your own story. It

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can also be a video, a photo, and audio recording

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anything that you think should be featured on an episode

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or on social media at at Sustal podcast on every platform.

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Please make sure that you are following. If you happened

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to see my Instagram story recently, I posted a picture

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on there of my twenty twenty six Bingo board, which

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is something my friends and I do. This is our

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second year doing this. Now where I mean, they're basically resolutions,

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but instead of saying this is my resolution or these

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are my sos, we have a set of goals and

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we make a bingo board with them and we see

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if we can hit bingo. I did not hit bingo

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in twenty twenty five, but that's okay because it was

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still really fun. I learned how to set better goals

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for myself for this next year, and I did accomplish

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quite a few things on there. I just didn't hit

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a bingo, and hey, that's all part of the fun.

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So anyway, I'm saying that because there were several goals

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on there that are SUSTA related. One of those is

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to hit ten k followers on social media, primarily TikTok

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and then secondarily Instagram. If I could hit ten k

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on both of those ten k followers, that would be

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really great. So if you're not already following me on

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those pages, please make sure to go do that again

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at Sustal podcast on every platform. And also, you just

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you get to see another side of the show. You

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see some behind the scenes stuff, you see me doing

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kind of silly things on there. You get looks into

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my personal life if you're interested in that for whatever reason.

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It's just another facet to Sustal, So go ahead, feel

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free to do that. And before we jump into the episode,

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remember that you can also support touste by engaging with

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the show wherever you are listening. So that means liking, subscribing, following,

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leaving positive ratings and reviews, and comments comments like this

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one from Freddie Mahia on Spotify. Freddy said great episode.

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Can't wait for more Sustal next season. I believe Freddy

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said this on the commissots episode. So Freddy, thank you

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so so much. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. And hey,

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we are in this next I guess season of sustal,

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I guess this is this is how I unofficially do seasons.

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I don't know. I've never really announced it that way,

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but it really is that way, right, That's kind of

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just what it is either way. Thanks Freddy. Another comment

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from Escape ten twenty six, who said Netflix has a

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documentary on these children and this event Purple Heart, thank

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you so much, Escape. And they are talking about the

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Children of the Jungle episode and the documentary that they

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are talking about. I looked it up. It's a document

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on Netflix called The Lost Children. So I will be

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watching that soon hopefully, because that sounds really interesting. I'm

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curious to know what they cover on there that I

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definitely more than likely missed on my episode. So you all,

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if you have a Netflix subscription, go check that out

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as well too, and then also listen to the Children

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of the Jungle episode if you haven't listened to it already.

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And last, but not least, a comment from I Think

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this says Jedi or jed l eight three three four

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on the month Sterlio episode, and they said, just finish

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this book and wanted some insights to the author's process.

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Thanks for a great interview and asking thoughtful questions. Thank

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you so so much, Jedi, Jed L Gonna. I'm gonna

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say Jed for sure, thank you so much Jed for

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that comment. I also really enjoyed that interview. Head Auto

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was an amazing guest and I yeah, just I love

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that book. So if y'all haven't read that book, please

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make sure to go check it out and then listen

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to the interview because that book is great. But also

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Head Out of Tho has all this other amazing writing

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that came before Months Stelio, and I'm sure there is

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plenty of more delicious writing that will come after Month Delio,

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so make sure to go check that out. Thank you

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all so much for those comments. I'm not going to

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take up too much more of your time. Thank you

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again for all the support for the comments, for the

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radies reviews, for following online, please continue to do so.

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I'm very excited about this year. Another one of my

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goals was to be more strategic about the show, was

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to have an actual strategy, and I already hammered out

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a timeline for the year. The details are not completely

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filled out, but I have a rough outline of the

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year at a glance for the show itself, so I'm

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very excited because looking at that, it makes it feel

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not as daunting or it's not like a giant sort

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of thing. How do you eat an elephant right piece

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by piece? And That's what I'm doing with this. So

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so excited for this next year. Thank you so much

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for being here. Without further ado, we are going to

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jump into today's stories, which are featuring you. Okay. The

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first story that we have here is from Liam, and

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Liam says, my name is Liam and I am writing

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from my college door in Miami, Florida. I'm in my

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sophomore year of college doing pre law. I am from Brooklyn,

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New York. My girlfriend's family is from Guadalajada, Mexico. Liam,

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congratulations on your higher education, your pursuit of your law degree.

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I'm very excited for you. Liam continues. This story is

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about my girlfriend's house in Mexico. My girlfriend and I

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went to visit Mexico during our summer break. Her family

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was very welcoming and very fun to be around. I'm

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just American, is what Liam says. Her house is around

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forty years old. Outside the living room window is a bench.

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The floorboards are wooden and they creak every time you

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walk on them at night. During the day, the house

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is quiet and normal, but at night it's strange and cold.

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That's the background of the house. And it was summer

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and it was one hundred degrees fahrenheit outside at night.

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One night, I went downstairs to the kitchen to get

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a glass of water. The night sky was shining and

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I was shirtless because it was hot. My girlfriend was

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asleep next to me. When I was done filling up

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the glass of water, I looked outside, and I swear

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to God, I saw a mariachi. When I blinked, it

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was gone. I thought I was seeing stuff because I

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was tired from the long flight. I drank the water

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and went back upstairs. I was about to go to

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the room and be next to my girlfriend until I

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peered out the window, and to my horror, I saw

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the same mariachi in front of the back door, knocking,

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but I couldn't hear it. I went back into the

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room and held my girlfriend and went back to sleep.

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The next morning, I told my girlfriend what I saw,

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and she said she had always seen those mariachis outside

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as a kid when she went to visit Mexico. The

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next night, my girlfriend and I stayed up late catching

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up on our series. We were watching The Rookie after

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finishing a season. We both went to the front steps

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of the front door because the breeze was nice. We

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were talking about stupid stuff from our childhood. I told

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her I'll put my phone to charge since it was

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at one percent. When I was about to go out

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the front door to sit next to my girlfriend, the

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mariachi was behind her. When I ran outside to warn

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my girlfriend, the madiachi wasn't there, and I saw it

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in the kitchen. I told my girlfriend what I saw,

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and she told me to go inside. We both locked

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all the doors and windows and went to our bedroom

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and we prayed. When I went inside, where my phone

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was charging, I noticed it was no longer on the charger.

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I then went to the bathroom and swore I heard

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dishes smashing. I brushed it off until I heard rocks

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being thrown at the window. I immediately ran outside. My

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girlfriend was on the couch and I asked her if

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she had heard that. She said she didn't hear the rocks,

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but did hear the dishes crashy. I went to the

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kitchen to get a drink, but then I saw something

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on the dining table. When I tried to turn the

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lights on, it vanished. I turned the lights off again

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and came face to face with a duende. I stared

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at it for a while until it started to speaking gibberish.

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I got scared and stumbled back. I saw my phone

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in the Duende's hand. I politely asked in Spanish. My

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Spanish isn't the best, but I'm trying to learn from

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my girlfriend for it to give my phone back. It

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chuckled and threw it into the sink, which was full

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of water. I ran to grab my phone, but the

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water wasn't in the sink anymore. Confused, I went to

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my girlfriend and described it to her, and she told

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me it was a duende and that they play pranks

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and are mischievous troublemakers. It pissed me off so bad

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I wanted to punch it in the face, but I

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went to my girlfriend instead to be honest. Mexico left

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me shaken and sent a chi down my spine. When

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I got home, I texted my girlfriend's family that we

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had reached home. I told her family what I was seeing,

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and they told me that the madiachi is always lurking around,

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and when they are inside, he is outside, and when

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they are outside, he is inside. They said the Madiachi

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was the first owner of the house who died in

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nineteen ninety eight. And then they told me Dwenda's mess

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around in are extremely harmless, mischievous troublemakers. My little sister

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introduced me to your podcast, and I don't regret it.

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My sister loves horror stuff and can watch The Exorcist

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at three am and not get scared, and she is

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in her sophomore year of high school as well. I

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listened to Susto while studying as always, Liam, Liam, thank

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you so much, and hello to your little sister who

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is not afraid after watching The Exorcist at three am,

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which is way braver than me. As we all know,

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I am more of a scaredy cat than people would assume. Liam. Wow,

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what a wonderful story. Thank you so much. Mexico, I

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feel like there's tons of stories and tiktoks and videos

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and all this stuff about growing up or living or

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being from Mexico and people seeing or hearing about or

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hearing themselves the scariest things happening over there. For some reason,

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it is just a mystical, magical land that is ripe

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for paranormal activity. So it is no surprise that you

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were seeing a ghost Madiaci. But also that sounds kind

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of badass, Like imagine spending eternity as a Madiachi like

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that looks super cool. I would not be mad at that.

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And then your encounter with Aduende. Yeah, they are generally

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mostly harmless. They're very mischievous, they're said to be. But

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again we've I've had this conversation before where they are.

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They're they're little people. They are autonomous beings capable of

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feeling and decision making, and it's kind of up to

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them who they want to mess with and how bad

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they want to mess with that person, and whether or

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not they are going to be harmful or mischievous or helpful.

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As we heard with again mentioned earlier the story of

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the children who were lost in the jungle. Their grandmother

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went on an interview and said that the Duendees and

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the four spirits helped guide her grandchildren so that they

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could survive forty nights in the jungle. So who knows?

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This one seemed to really be playing with you and

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I don't know it feels to me. It feels like

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that that's like their love language or their form of

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affection is like, you know when you have those friends,

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at least me and my friends are that way, who

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you kind of just like roast each other. Maybe that's

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kind of what are the wenda is like they're just

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here to give you hell, but because they know you

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can take it, and they're like they want to be

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your buddy. At least that's the way I'm processing that. Okay,

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this next one is from Jenna, and Jenna says, Hey, Aiden,

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my name is Jenna, and I'm sixteen years old and

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I've encountered paranormal activity and i am not scared at all.

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Hope the demon's lost spirit in my house isn't near

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me right now. And yes, I do have a spirit's

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lost demon living in my house attached to one of

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my mom's jewelry. Now, I almost assumed that this Jenna

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was Liam's little sister, because Liam did he didn't. He

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just say that his sister is what sixteen? Well, he

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said she's a sophomore in high school, so that's around

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the same age. But I don't think so, because Jenna

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and Liam are from different places. Jenna continues, and they say,

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my family is from Colombia and Peru, but I was

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born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and they always believed

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in ghosts. I love your podcast and listen to it

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at night and it's great. I would give it five stars.

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Thank you so much, Jenna, I really appreciate that. Make

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sure you do give it five stars. Jenna continues, But

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my friends and my abuela, auntie and uncle encountered paranormal

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activity at a young age. Myabuela always tells my sister

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and me and my cousins paranormal legends and ghost stories

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as she should that that that is the job of

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the elders. It's for us to pass on these stories

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and to keep them alive, to keep them undead, if

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you will, Jenna says. My family is very Catholic. My

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dad was always scared of spirits. So I'm telling you

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his story. When he was six, it happened he lived

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in a small town in Bohata. He was about to

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go to sleep when he heard a muffled scream and he

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got up and went to my grandparents and said he

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heard a muffled scream. And my grandparents checked it out,

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but nothing there. They both believed in ghosts and spirits,

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and my dad went to sleep, but as he was

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about to fall asleep, he heard that same scream, and

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when he turned around, he saw a dark figure standing

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there and it grabbed his wrist and he felt a

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burning sensation. He thought he was having sleep paralysis, so

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he brushed it off, but when he woke up in

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the morning, that scar was there, and he was act strange.

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but they were both fast asleep and wouldn't dare do

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anything like that. In the daytime. He went to see

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a priest, but the priest said someone has been watching

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him sleep, so he slept with the lights on that night,

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when it was around three am. He was sleeping until

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he heard the same muffled scream and his name being

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whispered in his ear, and a very bad stench, and

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it was cold, even though it was summer. Then as

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soon as he woke up, it all stopped. Five seconds later,

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the lights started flickering. My dad screamed, and my grandparents

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rushed in, and my dad was in the air and

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speaking in a mechanic voice. My grandparents started praying, and

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when they said amen, my dad was on the floor,

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terrorized and shaking and was muttering, he doesn't want us here,

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he doesn't want us here. My grandparents were confused, so

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they saw a priest and the priest said he would

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check it out. My dad went to sleep around three am,

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and he smelled the same stench, heard the same muffled scream,

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and his name being whispered louder, and it felt colder.

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My dad yelled and the priest and my grandparents came

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rushing in, and the priest started saying an exorcism, and

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my grandparents were praying and my dad was in the

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air again, and when the priest finished, my dad was

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coughing up blood and he was taken to a doctor

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and blessed by the priest. The priest said that the

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demon in the house had been living there for a

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long time and terrorizing children and making them its next victim.

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The priest told my grandparents to leave the house, so

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they moved, and said the demon made its home and

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targeted the place there and prevented people from buying it.

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The home is abandoned now because no one bought it,

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and it's still haunted Mayabella told me this story when

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I was nine, and I was so scared then, but

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after listening to so many paranormal encounters from family members

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and friends, it helped me get closer to God and

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place my complete trust in him. My Auntie's house always

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gave me the creeps. It was haunted, and that's a

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story for another time. Please send it in well. It

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was near graveyard, but my Abuela's house always gave me

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chills down my spine. It was a very haunted house

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and still is. To be honest, whenever I go to Colombia,

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I'm always getting chills down my spine. But I'm not

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scared at all anymore and don't need to be. I

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was scared at first that I would be the spirit's

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next victim, but I realized that there is no need

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for me to be afraid because God is protecting me

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and the name of Jesus is more powerful than anything

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and anyone. Thanks for reading this. May God protect you,

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aiden stay safe and I love listening to Susto and

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I always will, forever and always Quida Dee mucho Jenna, Jenna.

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That is so so sweet. Thank you so much for

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the blessings for sending your protection my way, because listen,

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I believe it whatever sort of practice you do, whatever

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religion you follow, if you have a relationship with something

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higher than you, sometimes me personally, I believe that that

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faith alone is enough to protect you from whatever malicious

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or evil entity or energies are out there. So I'm

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so happy that you have that protection over yourself, and again,

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thank you for sending some of that protection my way.

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This was a really intense story that is so scary,

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but also what a relief that whatever that entity may

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have been was obviously attached to the house or that

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property and not attached to a person. Because there's so

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many stories, right, and so many movies that depict those

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stories where someone is experiencing something a haunting. They think

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and then they decide, well, I'm just gonna I'm just

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gonna move away from it and this will solve the issue.

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be it a spirit, something demonic, or something else, it

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is attached to the person and not the home. What

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a relief that your family, your dad, and your grandparents

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were able to remove themselves from the situation and that

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did solve it, and that thing stayed in the home

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and it didn't follow them, so good for them. And

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I'm very curious. You mentioned earlier that there is something

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that is in your house. That is, it wasn't near

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you at the time of writing this letter. Hopefully it

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wasn't looking over and if it was, it also should

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go and leave me a five star rating. But I'm

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very interested in hearing about that and how it is

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attached to your mum's jewelry. It is very very cool. Okay,

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This next one is from Itsy and Itsy says Hi Adrian, Hi, Itsy,

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I love your podcast, me too, Itsy. Thank you. It's

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always great to hear fellow Texans in the creepy space.

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I'm originally from Mexico, but I spent a lot of

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time on the Texas Mexico border before moving to New

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York City. All right, I want to know where on

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the border you were, because that is a big space,

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and I feel connected to anybody that grows up on

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the Texas Mexico border. It is a very interesting space.

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It's like a liminal space. And I've spoken about this before,

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but if you can, I know that I sent you

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a followup email. I should have asked you that in

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the email, But that's all right. I'll send you another

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one and you'll probably maybe you'll hear this before or

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after you get that email. But it's he continues. Since moving,

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I've lived in many different apartments. Real estate here moves

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very quickly, so sometimes you have to move just as

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fast and end up in strange situations. Okay, another question

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for you. It'sy Actually, I'm not going to email you.

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I just need you to listen to this and then

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send me your responses. I have heard that people, when

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they are moving in or around New York City that

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one of the ways that people apartment hunt is by

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looking at the obituaries, because that means and this is

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really morbid, but basically it means that a space has

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opened up, right, But that would also make me think

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if you were looking at obituaries for potential apartment listings,

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that means that you were swooping in right after someone

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has just passed away, and who knows what trauma may

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have been associated with their passing, and if they are

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now haunting that space right. Either way, let me know

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that's a real thing. If people look for apartments in

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New York City by way of obituary, which I think

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that alone would be an interesting series or docuseries or podcast.

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I don't know I would be interested in following that

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story anyway. It's he continues. I ended up moving to

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this apartment in Brooklyn. I found the perfect two bedroom

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at a stellar price, so my husband and I decided

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to move quickly. I performed a white fired lemp yacht

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before we moved in to get rid of any negative energy,

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and we were fine for a while. After a couple

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of weeks, I started noticing the gas on the stove

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would turn off on its own. Sometimes I would smell

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gas in the apartment, and I'd be pretty scared, blaming

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myself for not being careful with the stove. On one occasion,

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I put on a tea kettle, one of those that

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whistle when the water boils. I was waiting for it

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to whistle, and when I went to check it was

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turned off. I touched the kettle and the water was warm.

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How could I have forgotten turning it off when it

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never whistled. I started to think I was going crazy.

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One day, my husband kissed me goodbye and went to

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work and I stayed home. I was lying in bed

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half asleep when I heard a voice whisper in my ear.

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I am Chabod. I quickly got up and searched the apartment.

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My husband had been gone for a few hours. I

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thought someone must have broken in. Keep in mind, this

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is a small apartment and it's pretty obvious if someone

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else is inside. I searched the apartment and no one

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was there. I did a quick Google search for Ichabod

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and found that it's a Hebrew name that means no

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glory or without glory. I started to put the pieces

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together and realized someone by that name must have lived

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here and his spirit was attached to this apartment. A

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lot of Eastern European immigrants occupied this part of Brooklyn

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many years ago. In fact, there's a well known Hasidic

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Jewish community not far from here. One day, I was

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sleeping and started dreaming that a tall person was taunting me.

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Ikobad had somehow gotten into my dream. I remember he

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was tall and chubby, light skin but dark hair, bowl cut,

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wearing white underpants with suspenders. He was standing right by

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my doorframe. I woke up, upset that he had gotten

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into my dream and bothered me. I did what any

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Mexican would do told the entity to fuck off. I

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haven't seen the spirit again in my dreams, but sometimes

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it makes itself known by turning off my TV or

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when I'm watching my favorite TV series with banish captions,

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switching them to Bulgarian or finish. I learned to make

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peace with this entity and not let it bother me.

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It's important to have boundaries with these spirits so they

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don't bother me in my dreams. Thank you so much

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for your attention. It's see. Thank you so much for

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your story, and I agree. Sometimes you really just have

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to set firm boundary and say, hey, fuck off, leave

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me alone, which is I think I've told that story.

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I had to do something like that in the house

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that I grew up in, and after I did that,

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I didn't know that I had that power. You know,

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we all have that power to set a boundary. Sometimes

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these things are a bit stronger and other things need

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to be done, like cleansings, prayer rituals, whatever it might be.

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But it is possible to set that boundary, say hey,

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leave me alone, this is not happening. Cut and it'll work. Thankfully,

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Ikabad didn't make his way back into your dreams, but

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he was trying to change the channel when he was like,

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I want to watch Real Housewives. So again, thank you

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so much for your story. And please again let me

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know if that rumor, that morbid rumor that people look

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for apartments in New York City through obituaries, if that

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is true, and remind me which part of the border

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you're from, because I would I would love to hear that,

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all right. The last story I have in this bunch

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is from Tony, and Tony says, this is actually my

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Abolita story. Backstory. First, my grandpa came to the US

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to look for a better job and life, you know,

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the American dream. Funny now to say that with the

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things happening today, Tony, if that isn't the truth, I'm

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not going to go into it right now in the

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first episode of twenty twenty six, but you all know

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how I feel. Anyway, this continues to anyways, So he

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came and found a job and a home for my

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grandma and seven kids. They'd have the time. Miabello worked

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for a nursery as an assistant foreman. In October of

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nineteen eighty four, he was digging nursery stock with a

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crew of twelve, when a storm front with sheet lightning approached.

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Miabello and his crew were heading for shelter to a

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nearby warehouse when lightning struck him and killed him. Rip Mayabulito,

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who I never got to meet. Now to Miabuela's story.

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My grandma later found out she was pregnant with her

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eighth child. She was angry and consumed with grief that

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she would curse God and yell at him. After some time,

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From what my mom tells me, strange things would happen

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around the house. Things moved out of places, voices in,

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whispers would be heard, and shadows would be seen. One night,

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when Miabulita was angry and yelling at God, as Diablo appeared,

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laughing at her and mocking her. She was so scared

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she started to pray. He only laughed more and louder.

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She just kept praying while he laughed and mocked her.

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He told her scared, she grabbed her rosary and kept

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on praying. She apologized to God for all she said

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and did, and promised to attend church and get back

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on God's plan. From what my mom had said, that

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was the only time she saw the devil, and she

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has attended church and followed the Catholic religion since Wow, Tony,

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that is. I always use this example whenever I do

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like interviews or people ask me about the show. They're like,

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you know, why do you tell these stories or what

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got you into this? And I'm like, you know, hearing

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these stories growing up. And I had the line that

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I always say that I know, like kind of gets

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a laugh from people, But hello right here, I'm like,

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it's true. I always say, you know, somebody's yeah, Chenscha

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always says I saw the devil right I saw the

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devil last night, I saw the devil on that rancho

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and like, hello here it is. This is a prime example.

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I don't know what your grandma's name was, but Chensha

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is always the name that comes in my mind for

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some reason, like the devil manifesting to her and mocking

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her like, well, if you're going to turn away from God,

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I'm right here and I can give you what you want,

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which I don't know what that means. But also I

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have a theory. I have a theory because hey, hot take,

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I don't think God is without flaw. Uh oh, so

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what if hear me out? This is my first hear

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me out of twenty twenty six. What if that was

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God pretending to be because God can do you know,

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God is almighty, God is all powerful, can do anything

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right allegedly. So what if God was like, you know what,

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I'm going to teach this woman a lesson and I'm

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going to scare her straight. And so he like either

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took form of what she would think the devil looked like,

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or or he sent an angel and was like, hey,

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go prank this poor woman who is grieving rightfully. So

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because so sorry to Yabulito, Like what a terrible way

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to go. And hopefully it was, you know, for his sake.

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It was quick and painless because that sounds and really intense.

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But you know she was rightfully and grieving, and so

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she was mad at you know, who could you be

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mad at. It wasn't a person that killed him. It

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was a natural thing. It was a lightning strike God created.

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You know. I don't know, I'm just I'm like going

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off the deep in here. But what I'm saying is

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I wouldn't put it past an all powerful being to

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be like, I need to keep these people in line,

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I need to keep them on the right path. Quote

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the right path. So I'm gonna I'm gonna trick them.

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I'm gonna scare them into coming back to my side

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before it's too late. You know, maybe God was saving

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her from really going off the deep end with some

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dark stuff who knows, who knows, But also the devil's

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kicked out of heaven for asking a question. I don't know.

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Hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. Anyway,

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Thank you so much, Tony for that story. Welcome back,

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well friends, Thank you so much for listening to the

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first episode of Susto in twenty twenty six. Oh my goodness,

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we did and we did it, Joe, we made it

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despite twenty twenty five being a hellish crazy year and

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honestly twenty twenty six already starting off rough. We are okay,

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we will be okay, we will do We just got

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to keep fighting. But above it all, we have each

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other right right. So as always, please visit the website

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or the link tree to submit your story or other

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review if you haven't a review like this one from

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hl Woodlet. Hl said in a five star review, one

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of my students from Venezuela made this trip when she

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was twelve, and this trip, they are talking about the

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that een Gap, so please go check out that episode

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if you haven't, which was also featured. I don't know

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if anybody's watching the show on Pluribus, which I think

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is a great show. I'm really enjoying it, and they

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lightly featured the Thatien Gap, which is like so cool.

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I was like, hey, I know exactly what that is. Anyway.

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Hl continues that his student made this trip when she

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was twelve, and she told me all the things. Based

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on what she described, I would take my chances with

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the shape shifting forest deities. The most terrifying thing one

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can encounter on this trip are people. Merciless people who

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take advantage of the traveler's extreme vulnerability, desperation, and exhaustion.

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I will never forget the awful stories, she told me

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Gracia savios Aya, Stabanoi, Navia Liso and la jungla perroes

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Aa and Contro and Lareveia fornounced Maenta speakers. They said,

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thank God that she is okay today, that no one

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harmed her in the jungle, but they cannot say the

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same for other girls and women that we're also making

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this journey. And HL finishes off by saying, thank you

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for educating us about this. HL, I am. I'm literally

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just educating myself and I'm sharing what I find. You know.

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That's what Jeff and I are doing here is We're like, hey,

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this sounds interesting, let's learn about it, and let's try

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and share what we learn. I'm just the messenger, all right.

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I'm not really the teacher. I'm just the yapper. I'm

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just the prison who likes to tell stories. But either way,

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thank you so much. HL. Make sure that you all

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