May 15, 2025

Puente de Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs)

Puente de Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs)
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BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT! In this episode, Ayden details the shocking legend of the Puente de Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs) from Comala, Mexico. A bridge said to be built with the blood of missing children.

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any further ado, let's get into today's story, which is

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the story of Elente de Suspios. In the quiet town

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of Gomala, nestled in the lush, green valleys of the

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Mexican state of Gaulima, there's a bridge that no one

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dares cross at night, crossing the San Juan River. The

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bridge connected to the Gaye Progresso to the other side

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of the bank. It was originally intended for the centennial

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celebration of independence. The bridge, however, is marked with fear

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and anger. Now known as the Puente de Losuspiros or

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the Bridge of SiGe, it stands as a foreboding edifice.

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Its ancient stone arches are covered in moss and ivy,

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casting eerie shadows over the dark waters below. The bridge

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is more than just an old stone structure. It's a

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place of whispers, secrets, and restless souls. Legend has it

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that on moonless nights, the bridge comes alive with the

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size of children, soft sorrowful exhalations that seem to rise

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from the very stones themselves. The air around the bridge

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grows heavy, and a chilling silence envelops the area, broken

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only by the faint, ghostly whispers that scent shivers down

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the spine of anyone who dares to listen. The townspeople

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of Comala speak of the bridge in hushed tones, sharing

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tales of its haunted past and the soul's trapped within

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its cold, unforgiving stone. The bridge was built in nineteen

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o nine at the height of the Porfiriato when Comala

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was growing rapidly and the town needed the bridge to

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connect its farthest corners. The workers who arrived to build

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the bridge were outsiders, sent from the city by Porfitio

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Vis's authoritarian government. They were strangers to the rural town

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of Gamala, and their presence immediately stirred tension and mistrust.

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The townspeople, wary of the government and its heavy handed tactics,

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were suspicious of the workers. They knew that children could

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be put to work under such regimes, and the fear

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of losing their own children to forced labour loomed over them.

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The workers, on the other hand, distrusted the townspeople, viewing

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them as simple and untrustworthy. This mutual suspicion created an

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atmosphere of disquietude from the very beginning of the construction.

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The workers were under immense pressure from the government to

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finish the bridge quickly. They often had to work late

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into the evening, their faces illuminated by the flickering light

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of lanterns. Exhausted and overworked, they became irritable and short tempered.

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Their anger sometimes spilled over, and they would snap at

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the curious townspeople who ventured too close, further deepening the

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divide between the two groups. Miel, however, was blissfully unaware

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of the underlying tensions. As a young boy, he was

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lucky enough to not understand why the townspeople were uneasy.

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He was just excited to see a bridge being built.

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The sight of the workers and the construction process fascinated him.

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He would watch from a distance, his eyes wide with wonder,

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imagining the grand structure that would soon span the river.

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His parents, aware of the dangers, told him to stay away.

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They warned him that it was dangerous to go near

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the site and that kids had gone missing around construction areas.

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Despite their warnings, Miguel continued to watch from afar, his

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naive and trusting nature making him believe that nothing bad

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could happen. Late one afternoon, Mituel's excitement turned to fear

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when he saw something that chilled him to the bone.

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The workers were mixing blood into the mortar. He couldn't

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believe his eyes, but the sight was unmistakable. The red

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liquid blended with the cement, creating a gruesome mixture. Horrified,

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Miguel ran back to town and told everyone what he

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had seen. At first, the townspeople were skeptical, but the

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existing attention and mistrust made them more susceptible to believing

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Miguel's story. Whispers spread quickly through the town, each retelling

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more dramatic than the last. The idea of blood being

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mixed into the mortar was horrifying enough, but soon the

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story took on a life of its own. Did you

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hear they're using blood in the construction? When villager would

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say blood, whose blood? Another would ask, eyes wide with fear,

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I heard it to the blood of children? Someone would whisper,

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their voice trembling children who went missing near the construction site.

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The townspeople imaginations ran wild. They remembered the warnings about

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children going missing and began to connect the dots in

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the most terrifying way possible. The fear of losing their

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own children to forced labor turned into a belief that

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the workers were using the blood of kidnapped children to

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build the bridge. The whispers and rumors fed off each other,

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growing more hysterical with each passing day. Soon, strange sounds

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began to emanate from the bridge. At first, only a

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few townspeople heard the sighs low voices, murmuring words no

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one could quite understand. They dismissed it as their imagination

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or the wind playing tricks on them. When they asked others,

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they were met with confusion and denial. I heard no

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such thing, the others would say, shaking their heads. But

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as the days passed, more and more people began to

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hear the eerie sounds. The whispers grew louder, and the

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sighs became more frequent, spreading fear throughout the town. The

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whispers and sighs fueled the townspeople's fears, leading them to

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believe that children were being used in the construction of

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the bridge. The community fell into hysteria, convinced that the

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bridge was cursed and that the souls of the lost

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children were trapped within its stone and mortar. Miel, despite

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his initial horror, began to doubt what he had seen.

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Could it really have been blood or was it just

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a trick of the light, his imagination running wild. Determined

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to find out the truth, he decided to venture to

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the bridge alone one evening. Known for his adventurous spirit,

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he had heard the rumors, the warnings of children who

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had gone missing near the construction site, but he wasn't afraid.

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Surely it was just superstition, he thought. As he approached

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the bridge, Miel tried to act brave. He told himself

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that there was nothing to fear, that the stories were

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just tales spun by frightened villagers. His steps were confident

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at first, his head held high, but as he drew closer,

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the night seemed to grow darker and the air heavier.

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The silence around him felt oppressive, and his bravado began

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to waver. He stood at the edge of the bridge,

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listening the air settled around him. That's when he heard it,

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a soft, agonizing sigh that echoed through the night. It

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wasn't the wind, not this time. It sounded like a person,

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like someone who had been waiting for a long time

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to be heard. Neel's heart started to pound. He tried

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to convince himself it was nothing, just the wind or

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his imagination, but the sound was too real, too close.

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His palms grew sweaty, and he felt a chill run

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down his spine. He turned to leave, but another sigh

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came closer, this time as though the wind was moving

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through the stone itself. It was followed by something worse,

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A whisper, low and distant, almost like a voice calling

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his name. Miyev's heart began to race as he looked around,

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but there was no one there, only the cold, dark

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emptiness of the night. Then he heard it again. This

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time it was clearer, but no less terrifying, A child's voice,

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soft and distant, pleading help help me. Miez stood frozen,

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every instinct telling him to run, but his feet felt

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rooted to the ground. Help. The whispers grew louder, and

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the sighs came faster, as if they were closing in

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on him. He could hear a multitude of voices, now

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all of them overlapping. Some were desperate, others full of sorrow,

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but they all seemed to be coming from the bridge itself,

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from the stone and mortar, as if the bridge were alive,

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breathing with the pain of those it had claimed. A

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cold wind swept through, carrying with it the sound of

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shuffling footsteps, faint but unmistakable. Miguel's breath caught in his

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throat and his hands trembled as he turned to run,

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But before he could take a single step, the whispers

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rose to a frantic pitch and for a moment, everything

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fell silent. It was then that Miguel heard a final

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terrible sound, the sharp crack of a twig snapping behind him.

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He spun around, but there was no one there, just

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the bridge, standing still, as if waiting for him to

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come closer. Suddenly, a construction worker emerged from the shadows,

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yelling at Miguel. The worker's face was twisted in anger,

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his eyes wild and blood shot, his hands covered in

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blood from working late and mixing. The mortar glistened ominously

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in the moonlight. The blood dripped slowly from his fingers,

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staining the ground beneath him. The sight of the blood,

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combined with the worker's furious shouts, terrified Miguel. Miguel bolted,

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his heart pounding in his chest, but the whispers followed him,

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echoing in his ears as he ran back to town.

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The townspeople heard Miguel's screams and rushed to the bridge.

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They found the worker with blood on his hands and

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assumed he was trying to hurt Miguel. In their panic,

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they became a crazed mob, their fear turning into anger.

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He's trying to hurt Miguel. Someone shouted their voice filled

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with terror. Look at his hands, they're covered in blood,

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another yelled, pointing at the worker's stained fingers. That's proof

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he's guilty. The mob's fear turned into fury. They yelled

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and threatened the worker with violence, brandishing sticks and stones.

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Get out of our town. When man shouted, his face

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contorted with rage. The worker tried to explain, but his

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words were drowned out by the angry shouts of the mob.

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They advanced on him, their eyes wild with fear and anger.

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The worker, realizing he was now in danger, backed away,

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his hands raised in a futile attempt to placate them.

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He had no choice but to flee. He ran, the mob,

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chasing him to the edge of the village, their shouts

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echoing in the night. The townspeople, driven by their hysteria

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and fear, watched as the worker disappeared into the darkness,

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never to return. The construction of the bridge continued, but

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the tension remained. The townspeople never knew if the other

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construction workers were also using blood, but they all kept

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their children far away from the construction site. The bridge

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was eventually finished, standing tall and imposing over the river.

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Yet the townspeople were always afraid of it, convinced that

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they could hear the size of tormented children coming from

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its stone arches. To this day, the Buente de Loos

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Suspiros is shrouded in fear and mystery. The whispers and

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sighs continue to haunt the night, and the townspeople of

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Comala speak of the bridge in hushed tones, sharing tales

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of its haunted past and the souls trapped within its cold,

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unyielding stone. Welcome back, well, friends, Okay, so get right

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into it. We have a few sources here, of course,

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and this episode was once again written, researched, and co

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written by Jeffrey Doyle and myself, So big love Jeffrey Doyle.

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There are a few sources here, but jeff also left

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a note for us This says interesting background information. They

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would actually add animal blood to mortar to make it stronger.

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The proteins helped bind the mortar together, and a quick

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definition of mortar is it's a workable pace which hardens

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to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete

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masonry units to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them,

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spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add

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decorative colors to patterns or patterns to masonry walls. So

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if you've ever seen a brick house, it is the

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gray stuff between the bricks. It's what kind of hold

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and binds everything together. But there's a link here as well.

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This is from Sage Journals. It's journnals dot Sage pub

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dot com. And once again all the direct links to

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these sources will be in THESEUS of Google doc on Patreon.

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And this is from an article looks like It's titled

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Preparation and Characterization of Ancient like masonry Mortars and in

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the abstract this says the characterization of mortars prepared according

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to ancient methods from the colonial period in Mexico is reported.

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The materials were prepared by mixing limestone, sand, water, and

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an additive bovine blood, milk or cactus ap so one

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of those three, the bovine blood milk or cactus app

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and the compression strength, flexual strength, and tensile strength were

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measured according to ASTM standards and at different aging stages.

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The technology developed allows, on the one hand, counting with

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a reliable methodology for restoring ancient buildings similar to the

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originally employed and on the other to offer a low

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cost technique for construction by using agricultural products. A lot

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of discount sounds really technical in sciencey and I read

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through it and every time I could find the word blood,

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of course I zeroed in on that. But essentially it

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just kept saying how it was prepared. So like the

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recipes again include bovine blood, milk, cactus ap In this

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this particular study, mortars were meant for restoring buildings from

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the what is that XVII, what number it is, I

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don't know century in the Mexican city of Morelia, State

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of Mechuakhn, classified officially by UNESCO in World List of

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Cultural Heritage in the early nineteen nineties. Yeah, it's just

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saying that these buildings. That was kind of the recipe

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to what made this mortar stronger. And towards the end

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of this article it says for the case of mortars

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with bovine blood, in spite of their relatively mild mechanical behavior,

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their activity to the environment was surprisingly good. In any case,

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all the additives helped to improve the mechanical properties of

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the mortars as compared to a simple limestone order. This

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is important because the Mexican Standards for Historical Monuments prohibit

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the use of Portland cement for restoration works, leading to

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the search of alternative methods for preparing inexpensive mortars. So

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I don't believe that this is a practice that is

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still in play, but it's interesting. Blood was used to

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build certain things. So with this story, we're going to

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dive into the origins. You can imagine that people may

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have seen blood being used, and then you know, you

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know how these stories go. Also, if you are watching

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the video, where is she? Margaret has been harassing me

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because I'm home alone right now, and so there's no

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one to distract her, and she is just I'm trying

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to keep her from screaming, and she's let me see

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if I can get her up here on camera and watch.

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She's gonna be pissed that I'm lifting her up to

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the camera. Say hi, she's parking, can you Margaret? She

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looks so funny in the camera. All right, you're nasty.

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Hopefully she will stay quiet for the deation of this episode.

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But if you're watching video and you keep seeing me like,

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move my arm down, I'm patting her so she doesn't scream.

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Her head off. Okay, let's dive into these next sources.

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After that, Margaret cameo. This first source here is from

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Mexico Unexplained dot com legends from the state of Kawalima.

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And this is, as you guess, it is a list

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of legends from the state of Kualima. At number three,

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I think in no particular order. This it's called the

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Bridge of Moans again at Buende de los Ospidrios, and

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this says in the town of Gomala, in the years

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nineteen oh nine and nineteen ten, workers built a bridge

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over the San Juan River. They called the new road

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leading to the bridge Gaya Progresso, in honor of the

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one hundredth anniversary of the Mexican War of Independence. So

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this bridge is also like a monument, right, it continues.

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The construction of the bridge was the most exciting thing

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the town had seen in years. Many townsfolk went to

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the construction site to observe the bridge being built, and

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the workers soon became concerned that a curious child might

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suffer an accident. Right, construction place is no place for

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a child. Construction site, so the parents in the town

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began cautioning their children to stay away when strong warnings

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were not enough, some parents began circulating rumors that the

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bridge builders were taking children and mixing them in with

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the building materials to make the bridge. We're going to

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see a different version of how they were mixed in

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in another source, but just prefacing that that kept away

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most of the little ones, except for one young boy

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who've entry to the site and from behind a low wall,

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watched some of the workers mixing cement. Again, as you imagine,

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this boy is who inspired our main character for this story, Migel.

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It was an old local tradition to blend a little

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bit of chicken's blood in with the mixture for good luck.

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We're gonna talk more about this, the good luck idea

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and chicken's blood versus what we know is actually documented

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is they would use bovine blood, but because it strengthened

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the mortar. But this is an interesting thing I wanted

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to look in and bring up, so we'll go into

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that next. But so this continues, and when the little

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boy watching the cement mixing saw a little bit of

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red liquid added to the mixture, he assumed it was

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the blood of a child. He ran back to his

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neighborhood and told his friends. Soon most of the town

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of Guemala believed that some of the local kids who

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had gone missing ended up in the bridge as part

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of the finished product. There are lines of writing on

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the bridge, a few sentences to dedicate it, and people

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in town who could not read assumed for many years

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that the letters spilled out the children who were sacrificed

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to give the town a span across their real Juan.

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So strong was the belief in the story of the

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Dead Children that the bridge was nicknamed the Bridge of

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mons or Pelosuspidrios because pastors by swore they heard the

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tormented cries of the kids who were mixed in with

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the mortar. Okay, a couple things to go through that

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we pointed out in this story, and this is a

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really good kind of version of the story that has

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like every point that we want to hit, right. The

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first thing I think that we said wanted to talk

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about was so I'm going to work in reverse here,

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So this idea of the dedication and people not being

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able to read. So yeah, it was just saying, I'm

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assuming it's like a plaque that says on this day

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or this bridge was built for, Like why is this

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bridge here, right, And we know it's because it's a

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dedication to the one hundredth anniversary of Mexican or Independent

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so I'm sure it says something about that. But there's

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people who were unable to read, and they had already

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heard this story by then, so they were thinking, oh

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my god, they put the names of the kids who

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are in this bridge or who were used to build

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this bridge, freaky right, And so that kind of just

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perpetuated the story. The thing about the blood that I

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was really excited about. I have that a little bit

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low in the document here because we're gonna jump around.

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This is venturing into an area of the world that

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we haven't done before. But I'm I've been very curious

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about doing it. I've been asked to do it, but

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I'm not sure. So consider this a poll, yes or no.

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Tell me what you all think. Leave it in the

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comment of the social post for this, send me a message,

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an email, leave a comment on Spotify. Especially if you

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are of Filipino descent or you are Filipino, Please let

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me know what you think. I have been asked about

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doing stories from the Philippines, and I've told people before

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I've kind of joked about it, like different land, same colonizer.

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So I'm wondering if that covers that area of like Hispanic.

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I don't know exactly too much, but if I'm encouraged

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to do so, I would love to do more research

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and to educate myself properly about the culture as well,

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because I know that there are amazing stories that come

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from there. So I say all that to say because

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this next link, it's from the Philippines and it says

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go to the attacowboy dot hom dot blah Philippine Life

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and Travels. And this entry was published in twenty nineteen.

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It's called Folkways, chicken blood and little People. That's exactly

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what it's called. I'm not sure what the involvement was

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about little people. I didn't read the entire thing, but

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it spoke to the chicken blood thing, which I was

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really interested in because it was mentioned, of course in

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that source earlier, and I've heard things about this, so

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I'm just going to read this. It's in quotes. This

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says they need two chickens. Who the workers They need

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two chickens before they can start the fence. Why they

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need to put blood in the first post hole or

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the fence will fall. This continues. We had hired a

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dozen or so local fellows to clear out our overgrown

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pastures and build our perimeter fence. They had made great

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progress clearing the tall grass and underbrush while waiting for

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the posts and wire. The request for the chickens came

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when the first posts arrived. I wasn't really surprised by

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the request. I've had a lifelong interest in folkways and

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worked for several years as a historian. Many cultures the

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world over have a tradition of a sacrifice of some

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sort in the foundations or walls of various structures. This

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is an aside if you were sensitive to the treatment

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of animals, just forewarning, you might want to skip maybe

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like fifteen seconds. This says in Old England workers would

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sometimes seal a hopefully already dead cat into the walls

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of a new building. So request for fresh chicken blood

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didn't really surprise me. I drove to a town and

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brought a couple of live chickens from a street vendor.

466
00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:26.720
You might want to skip those whole sources if you're

467
00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:28.599
sensitive to this sort of thing. Just the heads up,

468
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:32.720
but it's not extremely graphically detailed. But still either way,

469
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:34.799
this continues. One of the workers took them down to

470
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.519
the creek, where he promptly butchered them, draining the blood

471
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.359
into a bowl. Another fellow carried the bowl up to

472
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.200
the fencing crew. They poured the offering into the waiting

473
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.400
post hold without any ceremony that I could discern. Back

474
00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:48.759
at the creek, I noticed that the chickens had been plucked,

475
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.680
cut up, and placed into the cookpot. The divide between

476
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.039
the physical and the spirit world seems thin here in

477
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:57.000
the rural Philippines. Nearly everyone appears to have had some

478
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.480
type of experience with an otherworldly being. And then this

479
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:02.640
continues about I think other stories there, but this idea

480
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:05.240
of the blood being used, so I poked around about that,

481
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:10.839
and by the blood being used for superstitious or religious practices,

482
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.160
So there's of course, I think many of us know

483
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.079
who or have heard about the idea of like animal sacrifices,

484
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:19.039
especially with chickens. And the reason I found this so

485
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:21.559
interesting is because I heard recently, I'm not going to

486
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:25.240
say who or where, but I heard that there was

487
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.519
a really big event being put on for the public,

488
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:33.319
and that before they put up like flags or like

489
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.119
posts or stuff like basically essentially like this like something

490
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.640
that's going in the ground that like as an offering

491
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:42.400
for any deities that may be in control of or

492
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.480
could impact the weather. It was an offering to them

493
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.400
so that they put either I wanted, I can't remember exactly,

494
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:50.160
I would have to ask, but that they put either

495
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.359
just the blood or like a whole chicken at the

496
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.640
bottom of the post hole before they put the flag

497
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:59.240
or the fence post whatever. It was as an offering

498
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.680
to like how good weather for this thing to go off? Well,

499
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.839
you know, like you know, just like it was an

500
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:08.039
offering right for as you could say, I guess good luck,

501
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:10.319
as was mentioned earlier. So I just thought this was

502
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:12.960
extremely interesting and it really piqued my interest, and I

503
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:14.720
had to like dig around a little bit more about

504
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.319
that before I moved on. I'm going to move on

505
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.119
to the other sources, and we're going to reference back

506
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.039
the things that I was kind of thinking about earlier.

507
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.799
The idea of kids being used for manual labor, for

508
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:29.559
like forced manual labor. That that's not like a fake thing,

509
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.079
it was something that was actually happening. This is another

510
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.160
academic journal. This one was behind like a loggin wall.

511
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:37.160
I had to log into something. But this is from

512
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.960
Gael Books and the link the first part link says

513
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:43.440
go dash Gale dash coom dot easy proxy dot lib.

514
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:45.119
But if you want to look this up, is from

515
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:48.200
a book called The World of Child Labor, a Historical

516
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.839
and Regional Survey. The article I'm assuming the article in

517
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.599
this that we're going to look over, or that I

518
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.559
looked over, is titled History of Child Labor in Mexico,

519
00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.960
and this was published in two thousand and nine, authored

520
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.599
by Marcos ti Aguila and Mariano I tors B. Yes,

521
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:06.039
if you want to look this up, it's got some

522
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:07.880
length to it and it's really academic. But I read

523
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.200
the entire thing, and it's talking about the history of

524
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:13.799
child labor in Mexico and how especially again as was

525
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.000
mentioned in the story in the I have trouble saying

526
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.839
the word but like the Borfriato, but during Portfririo d.

527
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.240
S's regime or his time over in Mexico, in power,

528
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.680
and even before that that in Mexico and especially in

529
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:32.519
ancient times, that younger people or that children were we

530
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:35.279
were working. They were part of the working class. Children

531
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:37.799
as young as like twelve, And it wasn't always as

532
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.160
you imagine like labor going out to work with like

533
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.799
a briefcase or whatever, right, obviously not. It was also

534
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:45.960
part of the familial structures which I think we still

535
00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:48.839
kind of see now eldest daughters of the family. You

536
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.000
all are really going to hear this one and it's

537
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.759
gonna hit you in the heart. But that was there

538
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:57.440
was a name for the elder the eldest daughters, and

539
00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:59.839
the family families that would take care of their children,

540
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.519
and that was considered labor because it is it is labor.

541
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.279
And so this whole thing, it's really interesting. It's talking

542
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:10.319
about the different kinds of labor that children were basically

543
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.160
used for, and it ranged again from household labor to

544
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.680
working in the mind to working as apprentices. But there's

545
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:21.680
also a breakdown based on like class and cast is

546
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.519
the word that was also used that depending on who

547
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:26.680
you were and what your background was, you could be

548
00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:29.559
an apprentice, but you could not then become the thing

549
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.119
that you were apprenticing for. You were just an assistant.

550
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.519
And then if you worked in the minds, depending again

551
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.799
on your background, on your indigenity, on your how much

552
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:41.839
money your family already had how much land you did

553
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.240
or didn't have, that the pay scill was based off

554
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.160
of that, and not on the work that you were doing,

555
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:49.240
the quality of work, the amount that you produced. It

556
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.559
was based on who you were, which is wild to me,

557
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.799
and let's be real, still applies to women in the world, right.

558
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.920
But this is just a really interesting look. And again

559
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.359
it talks a lot about child labor and that how

560
00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:07.240
eventually it was abolished, and also in some ways how

561
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.920
that kind of continues. There was something really interesting here

562
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:12.319
Towards the end. This says thus toward the end of

563
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:14.000
the year two thousand. This is at the very end

564
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:15.920
of this that I thought was interesting. It says, thus,

565
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.200
toward the end of the year two thousand, the percentage

566
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:21.119
of working children in households with less than five person

567
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.599
was fourteen point three and in households of seven and

568
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.720
eight members it reached a surprising twenty one point four percent.

569
00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:30.240
The ancient regime appears to have been resuscitated. So this

570
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:33.960
is saying that this idea or this practice of child labor,

571
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.119
and you have to really expand what your idea of

572
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.759
labor is, because labor happens in the household like stay

573
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.359
at home moms. It's not just a cute name for

574
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.680
someone who takes care of the family or children or

575
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:49.240
runs the household. It's it's a job. It's a full

576
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.839
time job. Absolutely, it is labor, and that's a whole

577
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:54.839
can of worms that we can unpack and have hours

578
00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:57.240
long discussions about. But so ultimately, I just I thought

579
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.720
this article is really cool because I think it could

580
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:03.759
challenge someone to expand what their idea is on what

581
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:06.160
labor is. And then again it's saying that this kind

582
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.960
of thing is happening again and it's really honestly sad

583
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:12.440
to see it. Sometimes you think about cases with children,

584
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:16.199
how they're I think the term is called parentified is

585
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.480
when that happens. It's when they're they are the children,

586
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:21.719
but then they're forced to either care for siblings or,

587
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.800
depending on the situation, care for their parent for a

588
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.800
variety of reasons. But I don't know. It was just

589
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.760
like I thought it was really important to look at

590
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.400
this also in this idea of child labor and the

591
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:34.119
history of child labor in Mexico, and how again it

592
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.000
varied across the board from different types of labor and

593
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.599
how they were treated and why they were treated that way.

594
00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:43.079
So I could maybe do something separate about this again

595
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:45.559
it would it deserves its own episode, or maybe I

596
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:48.480
can find something really cool another podcast about it. But

597
00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:51.599
if you are interested again this article, it's titled History

598
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:53.800
of Child Labor in Mexico. The book is the World

599
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.079
of Child Labor and historical and regional survey authors Madocus

600
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.119
ti Aguila and Mariano Eat what is b And also

601
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:03.880
anytime you all hear me talk about like an academic

602
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:08.039
source in Sustal on Sustal, you could also if it's

603
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:10.800
behind some sort of paywall or you need some sort

604
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.360
of like official login for something that you can't get

605
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.320
or you can't afford, or you just don't want to

606
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.840
pay for it. I have heard that a lot of times.

607
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:20.199
If you just reach out to an author, especially an

608
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.599
academic author, and you say, hey, I heard about this

609
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.960
theme you wrote. I was really interested in it. Unfortunately

610
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.079
can't get behind log in, paywall, whatever it is, Is

611
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.239
there any other way to access it? Sometimes they will

612
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:33.800
just send you their research for free. They will just

613
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.079
they're like, yeah, here's a link, here's an email, here's

614
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.760
a document, Because you know, I feel like any I'm

615
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:41.000
going to use the word good. Any good academic would

616
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:43.920
want to share that that information freely, but because of

617
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.880
how it's published, the publishers then have to put out

618
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:49.360
whatever I'm just saying. Sometimes you just have to ask

619
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.719
what did we say in the City Alchemist episode? You

620
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.599
just got to ask sometimes. Okay. So the next source

621
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:58.920
that we have here is from moss Dash Mexico dot

622
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.639
com dot MG, And to be honest, this is just

623
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:03.639
another retelling of the story. But I want to say,

624
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:06.559
this is where they talk about the pillars. Okay, Yeah,

625
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.400
So this says, however, since it was dangerous for children

626
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:12.440
to be in a construction area unattended, the adults devised

627
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.159
a way to scare them away without resorting to scolding

628
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:18.599
or reprimanding them. They told the children that the bridge

629
00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:22.840
builders often used curious children and stuck them between the columns.

630
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.760
So I believe this source was translated. So what I'm

631
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:27.840
imagining is they were telling them they're going to put

632
00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.079
you like literally, they're going to just put you in

633
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:33.280
the bridge. So imagine like surrounded in like a pillar

634
00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:35.320
that's holding up part of the bridge, Like they're going

635
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:36.880
to put you in there if you get too close.

636
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:39.880
So like a different way that this honestly threat was

637
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:41.679
made to the kid, which is what a lot of

638
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:44.719
these stories are. They're threats, right, paranormal threats. And they

639
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:46.719
were told, if you get too close, they're going to

640
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:48.440
put you in there. And then now we know the

641
00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:50.719
other versions say they're going to use your blood, They're

642
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.119
going to put you in there. You're going to be

643
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.559
part of the bridge. So whether that is your complete

644
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:57.639
like physical being, or if they're taking your blood and

645
00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:59.840
using that in the mortar mixture, but I just thought

646
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.559
it was I wanted to bring that part of that

647
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.280
variation of the story. This next source that we have

648
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:08.760
here is from Barratodo Mexico dot com and this is

649
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:11.639
legend of the Bridge of Size. Again, this is pretty

650
00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:14.079
much the same short kind of legend the years nineteen

651
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:17.400
or nine nineteen ten. The bridge was built in Guamala

652
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:20.320
over the San Juan River, Okay. And this is again

653
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:22.360
why we wanted to point this one out. This says,

654
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.880
faced with this situation, the parents, wanting to avoid an accident,

655
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:28.199
decided to warn their children that the workers were taking

656
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:32.840
children and while still alive, embedding them in walls and columns.

657
00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.320
So it was again the threat went different ways they

658
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:38.239
were they got created with it that they're going to

659
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:39.960
kill you and put you in there. They're going to

660
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:42.199
drain your blood and mix it in there in the cement,

661
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.920
or they're gonna basically not bury what's instead of burier,

662
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.039
they're going to seal you alive into the wall and

663
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.440
the columns of this of this thing. This also says

664
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:54.880
this led to the fact that once the work was

665
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:59.400
completed and inaugurated, many single women refrained from passing through

666
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.360
there as they claimed to hear the cries and size

667
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.519
of the buried children, mistaking them for their own mothers

668
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.599
who had abandoned them. Adults who lacked the gift of

669
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:11.920
reading pointed to the inscription located on one of the

670
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:15.760
columns relating to information. This is also translated so I

671
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.719
don't know, but basically, people who couldn't read, they would

672
00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:21.599
look at the inscription or the dedication on it relating

673
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:25.000
the information about its inauguration, stating that the names of

674
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:28.039
the children's buried there were those names there. So again

675
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:30.920
that's where this comes from. And I believe the last

676
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:34.079
source that we have here this is from the ario

677
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:37.880
the Yaki dot MX, and this says, learn about the

678
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.000
legend of the Bridge of Size, one of the most

679
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.599
famous and interesting in Gordima. Again, this is a translated source,

680
00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:45.679
so that's probably gonna be different when you first find

681
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:48.159
it online. Again talks about what the story is. This

682
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:50.960
also has the detail of they said the caretakers often

683
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:54.159
lured curious children between the columns so that they were

684
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.360
built into it. Towards the end of this, it says,

685
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:58.840
is the legend real? It says it has been reported

686
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:02.039
that the young man did indeed see blood on the pillars,

687
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:04.920
but this fluid was from animals, as it is said

688
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.480
that back then blood contributed to the consistency of the mixture,

689
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:11.559
making it harder or stronger. The legend originated from a

690
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.440
simple misunderstanding, although it was thanks to this that the

691
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.920
Bridge of Size became an iconic place in Kolima. Again,

692
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.679
I want to say another part said that at the

693
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.119
same time that this bridge is being built, that children

694
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:25.800
were actually like going missing. I think this was also

695
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.679
towards the end of when child labor was being used.

696
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:31.719
So just that those different things mixed into each other,

697
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:35.119
like they're taking children, maybe they're using them for child labor.

698
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:37.480
What is the kind of work that they're being used for.

699
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.239
Maybe the work is like their body or their blood

700
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.360
being used to make these buildings stronger, to make this

701
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:47.079
bridge stronger. So again, people hear these different stories, they

702
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:50.000
these different details, then they make up stories, they run

703
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.239
with them, and then before you know it, here we

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support means everything to me. Once more. You can catch

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me tomorrow Friday, May sixteenth, at City Alchemist for a

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live storytelling and movie screening of Veronica, and then on Saturday,

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May seventeen at the Curious Twins' fourth annual Psychic and

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Spirit Fest at Victoria's Black Swan Inn. I will see

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you all this weekend. Thank you for listening, and until

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next time, note Sostas bye,