Aug. 7, 2025

The Ghost of Clara García de Zúñiga

The Ghost of Clara García de Zúñiga
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Did that painting just look at me? In this episode, Ayden shares the legend of the supposedly haunted portrait of Clara García de Zúñiga.

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

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

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the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures. Welcome back.

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Thank you so much for being here. Not only can

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you be listening, but if you are a best girlfriend

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on Patreon, then you are possibly watching. And if this

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is your first time, welcome to the pod. Welcome to

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the Circle of Trust. It is better that you enter

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this sisterhood with trust in your heart or no, what's

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the craft quote? I butchered it, but you know what

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I mean. It is better that you fall in this

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blade love, perfect trust. You're here, Thank you, and I

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I'm also back really quick. Before anything else, a big

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shout out and a big thank you once again to

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Laney Hobbs from It's Haunted, What Now and True Crime

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Cases with Laney for dropping into the feed last episode

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so that I could kind of recuperate from my quick

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vacation more like my sabbatical to go see Mother Monster.

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As you can see, I'm wearing the shirt that I

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made for the concert. If you're watching the video. Speaking

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of the shirt that I made the video, I actually

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made like a vlog out of it, or just like

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a quick video. I don't know. I'm putting stuff up

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on YouTube, so if you haven't seen, go check that out.

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It's YouTube dot com slash at Soustal podcast. The last

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video that I uploaded. A major shout out and thank

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you to Nicole and Damien from Para Peculiar the podcast

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for having Jeff and I over for Ouiji Board session

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slash Paranormal Investigation. I did a vlog on that and

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it was a really great experience, so make sure that

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you go check it out. Also, thank you to Maud

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and Ray for joining us that night. It was a

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lot of fun. It was a great experience. But yeah,

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you can. You can watch the vlog if you want

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to hear all about that and see some some clips

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and hear from Nicole in there as well. Again, that's

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YouTube dot com slash at Sustal podcast. But anyway, some

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quick updates before we jump into today's episode. One more

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thank you to those of you who attended the Sustal

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spell book Club meeting. We held that on the second

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a couple of days ago. That was a Saturday. Yeah,

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it was so fun. I hadn't done a book club

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in a long time. The last time I did a

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book club was actually myself, Jeff, and one of my

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best friends, April. We all got together and we created

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and hosted this book club and it was called Brunch

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the Queer Comic book Club, and we would meet at

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different spots in the valley and have brunch at these

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restaurants and talk about the comic book that we read.

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They were always centered around like queer stories. That was

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a lot of fun. So this was it was really

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cool to get into this. But this is very different

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because it was over zoom, so different for me, and

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I'm you know, I was. I got some positive feedback,

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but as always I'm like, how can I do this better?

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What can I change? What can improve on? So anyway,

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just thank you for those of you who attended and

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participated in the conversation. It was a lot of fun.

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For the month of August, we have the book that

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we are reading. It is The Witches of a Baso

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by Luis Haramio. If you're just hearing about it now,

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I know it's a couple of days after the month

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has started. But it's not an extremely long book. It's like,

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I think, like two hundred something pages, so listen. If

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I could read Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which was like four

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hundred pages in a month, we can get this one done.

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So I'm excited about this book. I've I've heard lots

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of good things about it for quite a while and

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it's been on my list for a while. But hey,

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it's part of the book club now, so I'm excited

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to finally get to reading it. I've already started. It's

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really fun. And if you haven't heard about the book club,

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if you haven't seen the social media posts, that's at

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Souso podcast on every platform I've been updating about it.

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If you would like to join the book club, it

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is open to any and everybody, so you do not

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have to be a patron, you don't have to sign

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up for anything. All you have to do is just,

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I guess, basically follow on social media so that you

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know what the updates are, you know what we're reading,

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and then at the end of the month we will

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have a discussion. But I will of course post the

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meeting detail, so the date, the time, and the meeting link.

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That's about it. But if you are interested in some

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extra perks or participating a little bit more, what's the

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word intentionally or in depth. I don't know. You can

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sign up for Patreon and the middle and higher tiers.

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Those patrons have access to voting on what we read,

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so the book The Witches of Esposo patrons voted that

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we were going to read that one this month, and

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you also have access to the discord channel for the

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book club, where we can talk about the reading throughout

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the month. Of course, it's not necessary, you can wait

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until that final discussion, but it's fun to kind of

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check in and say, what page are you on? Oh

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my god, I just got to this really sad part

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or I can't believe this is happening. We try and

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keep it spoiler free, but it's a fun, kind of

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little extra thing to be a part of if you're interested. Again,

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totally not necessary. The book club is open to any

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and everybody. Just make sure to follow Sustal Podcast on

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all social media platforms for updates about the book club.

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And the last update I will give is I have

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some events lined up already for October the tenth, the eleventh,

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and the thirty first. Just keep an eye out on

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social media. I'll be posting more details about those, but

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I think so far it is going to be an

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event at Haunt Happy Books in Lockhart, one of my

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favorite places in this world. An event at the Austin

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Public Library for Another Life storytelling, and an event on

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Halloween Night, the thirty first hosted by night Now Will Podcast.

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So of course I will post flyers and calendar updates

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and everything on social media. And if you are hosting

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an event, If you know someone who's hosting an event

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and they need entertainment, storytelling, a panelist, a workshop, a moderator,

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hit me up. I am your gooul. Send me an email,

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send me a DM, leave it in a comment somewhere.

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Or if you see an event that you think that

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I would be interested in participating in, please send me

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the details, tag me in it, whatever it is. Let's

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get those connections going. Let's fill up the rest of October.

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And I will say, if you are an organizer, I

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would say jump in now. Try and lock down a

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date with me, because unfortunately, there were people that I

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wanted to work with last year that I wasn't able

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to because Spooky season gets really busy, and thankfully, so

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please reach out and let me know if you'd like

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to work with me for Spooky season, we're about to

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jump in to the story. As always, if you have

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your own story that you would like to share on

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a letter from the Beyond episode, you can do so

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that's linktr dot ee slash Sustal and hitting that submit

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dont that in and I will post it either on

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the episode or on social media. And if you would

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like to support the show, you already know the easiest

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way to do so is by leaving positive ratings and reviews,

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show with your gal friends, let them know what you're into.

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How much of a creepy little weirdo you are for

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listening to this stuff. But not really, We're not really

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the weirdos, you know, We're just having a good spooky

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time over here. Okay, now, with all of that out

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of the way, let's go ahead and jump into today's episode,

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which is the story of the Haunted painting and the

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ghost of Klara Garcia the Zuniga. They brought Martine on

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as an intern, an art student from the university, eager

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to learn the quiet craft of art preservation. The night

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hour suited him, while the city hummed with distant engines

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and flickering screens. He worked in the archives of the

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Juan Manuel Blaanness Museum. The villa turned museum, perched at

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the edge of Brado Park in monte Video, seemed to

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exist in a separate world, a world steeped in frescoes,

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acrylic and silence. It was a beautiful old building, a

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nineteenth century estate, draped in ivy and wrapped in memory.

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The stone walls held the heat of summer days and

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ex held it slowly through the night. Floors were soft

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gray marble, whispering underfoot. High ceilings floated above him like

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painted clouds, and chandeliers cast puddles of amber light on

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the walls. During his first week, Martin assisted with cycling

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artwork into and out of the archives. Paintings rotated regularly

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through the public exhibitions, and it was his job to

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help store those not currently on display. He gently wrapped

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canvases in breathable cloth, labeled crates, and noted condition reports.

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As he worked, he found it hard not to reflect

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on how easily art and the lives behind it could

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be tucked away, out of sight and forgotten. Martin spent

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his night's gently cataloging old frames, brushing dust from derelict watercolors,

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examining the aging of oils. There was a sacred stillness

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in the work. He liked it the way the house

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slept around him. But in his second week, things began

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to shift. It started with the cold. He had just

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finished shelving a folio of sketches in the north corridor,

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the one lined with pastoral scenes and gauchos on horseback,

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when he felt it, a sharp chill, sudden and unnatural,

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like walking into the shadow of something that wasn't there.

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The windows were closed, the air should have been warm,

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but the cold slid through his sleeves like fingers. Later

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that night, he heard music, Three soft piano notes, then silence,

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then four more. The museum's piano sat in the music room,

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an antique baby grand well maintained but never played. Martine

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stepped into the hallway. The music faded. He entered the

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room and it was empty. The lid was closed, a

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fine layer of dust covering the keys, no footprints, no drafts.

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He told himself, it was nothing, just the acoustics of

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an old building. The next night, while taking a break

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in the rear gardens, he glanced up. There in the

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window above stood a figure, a pale dress, a silhouette

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framed in moonlight, still as a painting. He blinked and

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the figure was gone. He rushed inside up the narrow staircase,

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his footsteps reverberating off of all the marble and stone.

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At the end of the upper gallery, he paused a

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portrait hung on the far wall, a young girl. The

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painting showed only her upper half, delicate shoulders, in a

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pink dress trimmed with lace. Her black, curly hair was

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pinned neatly behind her head. Her face was uncanny, not

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for any flaw in the technique, but because of how

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many emotions it held, sadness, defiance, a flicker of knowing.

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Her eyes, dark and wide, watched him, They followed him,

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no matter where he stood in the room. The next morning,

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Martin hesitated. Then, during a casual conversation with his supervisor,

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he asked, has anyone ever noticed strange things in the museum.

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The older man paused, as though weighing his words. You've

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seen her yet, Martin did an answer. His supervisor told

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him the story, the one every long time employee heard

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but never printed in a brochure. Her name was Glaa

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Garcia de Zuniga. She lived in the museum before it

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ever housed art. The daughter of wealthy landowners, born in

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eighteen forty five, Glada was a spirited child with a

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mind too quick and a tongue too sharp for her time.

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She read voraciously, wrote with fierce conviction, and questioned everything,

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especially the roles society laid out for women. Her rebelliousness

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alarmed her parents. She rejected suitors, argued philosophy with her tutors,

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and roamed Montevideo without a chaperone. At fourteen, in a

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desperate attempt to contain her, her parents married her off

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to Jose Maria Zuvila, a thirty six year old notary.

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She bore him three children, but the marriage was a cage.

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Glatta ultimately separated from him, a scandal almost without precedent

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in her social circles. She later entered a relationship with

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the writer and lawyer at Nesto de las Guarea's and

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bore five more children. She published essays that criticized patriarchal

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laws and hypocrisies. She wore what she liked, spoke her mind,

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and walked where she pleased. Eventually, her own relatives brought

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legal action against her. In eighteen eighty five, they had

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her declared mentally unfit to manage her life and estate. However,

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it was not madness that concerned them, it was her independence.

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In court, Gladda spoke eloquently in her defense, but the

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judge dismissed her testimony. Control of her property and legacy

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passed to her male relatives, including her estranged husband, Josse.

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They confined her to the attic of the family home.

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That attic would be where she lived out the rest

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of her days. She died up there, not from illness,

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but from isolation. The curator overheard the story being retold

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and interrupted with a frown. Let's not indulge in ghost stories.

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It's bad for the museum's reputation. That afternoon, the portrait

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was quietly taken down. It was stored away in the archives.

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Later that night, now alone, Martin returned to his work.

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The atmosphere of his working space felt abnormal. The archives,

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usually peaceful, were heavy with a quiet pressure. At midnight,

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he heard the creaking of hinges, then the slam of

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a door, then footsteps on the cold tile. He searched

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the corridors. In the portrait gallery, several paintings were no

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longer on the walls. Some lay gently against chairs, some

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upside down. One rested face down on the floor, but unharmed.

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Then Martin heard crying, soft, steady, a woman's sorrow baked

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in the walls. He followed it back upstairs into the

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room where Glada's portrait was taken down this afternoon. The

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crying stopped. The painting was back, hung askew, but unmistakably

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there the girl in the pink dress, the dark curls

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pinned up, the quiet storm in her eyes. Mardine stepped closer,

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and then he felt something, a pressure against his chest,

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not pain, but firm, as if invisible hands pressed into him,

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not to harm, but to move him back and away.

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He took a step back, and the pressure faded. He

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stared into Glada's eyes. He understood she didn't want to

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be shelved away or pushed around. She didn't want her

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story archived. She had spent a life resisting control of

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her body, her words, her fate. She would not allow

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it in death. She wouldn't let another man box her

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into silence, even delicately beneath layers of bubble wrap and

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canvas sheets. Martin left the museum before dawn. He never returned,

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but sometimes in the high rooms of the villa late

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at night, the air grows cold, the piano plays, and

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paintings come to life. Welcome back, wel friends, thank you

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

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ahead and jump into the sources this painting and this museum.

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It's a real pain it's a real place. I even

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went on Google Maps and I did the street view

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you can do. I don't know, maybe they do this

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for all museums. I didn't know this, but you can

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do a street view or like a like an in

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person view of museums. So I did like a walkthrough

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of this museum last night. The painting is there, she's

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up right now, I will say. I saw it, and

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I was so excited, and then I was like, oh,

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I'm a little scared, but it's a picture of a painting.

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It's I'm fine. So again, this is the portrait of

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Clara Garcia the Zuniga. And this first source that we

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have here is from the website. It's the Blanis dot

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monte Video dot gub dot y and this is a

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post about her. Also, I probably should have done my

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due diligence, and I can do it now, but I've

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already recorded the story. So I'm not sure if it

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is Blanis or Blaines B L A n E. S.

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But I'm gonna go with Blandis because why not, you know,

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for the culture. But this first source, it says Blanis

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or blains began painting at a very young age, and

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his earliest work included landscapes and portraits. Before establishing himself

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as a professional artist, he painted numerous portraits of Monte

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Video's high society members who hired him to represent them.

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At that time, owning portraits was a way to distinguish

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oneself in society. Also, before I forget, I don't think

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I've said it yet. So this story of course takes

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place in monte Video. Uru why and immediately that first

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paragraph it makes me think of these kids in their

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damn phones. You know, when people criticize others for like

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being obsessed with their image, or like constantly taking selfies

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or videos of each other. I wonder how much of

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that is influence fired or translated from this kind of

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old idea that like owning a portrait of yourself, it

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distinguishes yourself, so like you know, you have to take

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these pictures of yourself. Sorry, I was just listening to

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an episode of The Cutting Room Floor, which is one

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of my favorite podcasts ever. It is so good. I

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just started listening recently. There's a bunch of clips on TikTok,

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so if you want to look it up at the

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Cutting Room Floor, I would highly suggest checking that out

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there before you because she's on Patreon only. So and hey,

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I get it because I feel like when I listen

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to her, I get smarter, I get like, I don't know,

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I get such good takes from her. Anyway. So the

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last episode that I just listened to is she had

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I forgot this person's name. I'm so sorry, not that

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either of them are listening, but she had on this

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like fashion industry photographer, and I think like just a

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photo journalist in general, not even specific to the fashion industry.

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But they were talking about photography and photographs, especially in

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like photographing people, and I don't know the way that

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they were talking about it. I was like, wow, this

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all makes complete sense. And it's obviously photography is it's

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its own thing that gets studied, right, It's it's art,

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it's journalism. I don't know, I'm going in tangent here anyway.

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All that to say, I'm like, I'm still that that

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episode is fresh in my mind thinking about this and

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the idea of portraiture and what that means and like

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what it signifies to other people. But anyway, this continues.

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The portrait dates from this early period of Blannis's career.

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It was painted around eighteen fifty, when Kladagarcia the Zuniga

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was about ten years old and the painter was twenty five. Again,

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her family was wealthy. They were landowners, so they commissioned

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this paint to her portrait. It says the painting was commissioned,

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of course, by the Garcia the Zuniga family. The treatment

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of Glada's portrait displays pictorial characteristics from a period prior

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to Blaine's academic training in Florence, Italy, so he was

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a formally trained painter. But this painting specifically of Clada.

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It's more representative of his work before his training. I'm

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not sure they don't. I didn't see anything about when

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he got that training, So I'm like, is it that

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he did the painting before he did his academic training

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in Italy or is it after and he intentionally chose

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to do it in this style. Not sure what that

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has to do with the haunting, but we'll see this,

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says Kladagarcia. The Zuniga was the heiress to a considerable fortune,

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and between eighteen seventy two and eighteen ninety two she

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was the owner of the country house that is now

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the Blindness Museum. So it's interesting that her family commissioned

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this artist. She, you know, was from a wealthy family.

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She was rich. She ended up inheriting this house in

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the fortune, and then the house became the museum for

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or named after the artist that did her portrait. Why

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wouldn't it be named after her or her family? I

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don't know. Interesting, this says. She married by arrangement from

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her parents. So her parents, of course, as mentioned in

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the story, arranged her marriage the thirty six year old

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notary Zuviriya at the age of fourteen gross. Obviously I

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was about to say by today's standards, but I feel

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like by any standards. But obviously the mindset was very

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different then. So but now it's like, oh, that's icky.

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But this says from this marriage she had three children.

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So three children with Zuviria, this man who her parents

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arranged the marriage with, and after separating from him, she

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enjoyed a very liberal love life, is what it says here,

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by the moral standards of the time. So she was

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probably like showing ankle and wrists and being like you

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who blink blink blink wink wink wink, and everybody was like,

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how dare she whore? But sorry, but this continues. She

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had five children with Alberto Garcia Lagos and her son

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who is the writer and they say dandy Roberto de

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las Carreras with Ernesto de las Carreras. So she had

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five children, one of them of whomst was a son

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who went on to be a notable writer. But all

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those five kids, including the son that they pointed out here,

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for whatever reason, she had them with Ernesto de las Carreras,

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who allegedly was her lawyer, I think. But this says

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in eighteen eighty five, a medical and legal tribunal accused

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her of suffering from mental disorders, which prevented her from

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further disposing of her property. This is in eighteen eighty five.

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She was born. She was ten years old in eighteen

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fifty five, so eighteen fifty five to eighteen eighty five

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that's thirty years. She was about forty years when this happened,

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so she was young and they were like done, You're over.

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This finishes up here by saying one of the achievements

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of this portrait by Blanis is that the eyes look

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straight ahead. As in many paintings, these gazes appear to

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follow us thanks to an optical illusion. So I've definitely

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seen these paintings everywhere. I feel like they've taken it

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up a notch now. And you go to like Spirit

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Halloween or any store during spooky season, and it's kind

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of like a shadow box effect where there's a layer

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with just the eyes painted, and then there's a layer

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in front of that with the rest of the painting,

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so that when you move, it looks like those the

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eyes are actually physically moving, but a really cool optical illusion. Essentially,

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it says the effect is achieved by creating a forward

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facing vanishing point and painting the pupils in the center

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of the iris. The image is static, but the brain

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detects this effect and creates an optical illusion as if

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it were the movement of the portrait's eyes. The same

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thing happens in photography and film when the subject or

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actor looks at the camera. Since the eyes in the

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portrait are painted looking straight ahead with a forward facing

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vanishing point, the illusion is created that the gaze quote

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of the painting always meets the observer's gaze, no matter

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where they are. Nothing could be further from the presence

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of Gladasol or her ghosts. So essential this is saying

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it's just an optical illusion. The painting is not haunted.

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This also makes me think of what do they call

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it in movie? Is like the cube? I think very

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famously like in The Shining, when it's like the head

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tilted down the eyes up, it's supposed to look like

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really creepy. That kind of like effect creates I think,

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a sort of feeling in people when they see it

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that makes them a little uneasy. The next source we

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have here is from a cultashworld dot com, and this

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is about the Blanness Museum in monte Video. This says,

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the haunted mystique of Blannis Museum and the painting of

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Clarita nestled Montevideo uru way. The Blanness Museum located on

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Juan Manuel Blannis Street, so it's on that street. Maybe

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that's why it's the museum is named after him, is

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because it's on the street named after him. I still

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think it should be named after her and her family.

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I don't know. I wonder how the people in Urdua

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I feel about that, or in monte Video feel about that.

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This says the museum is a destination that marries art

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and the uncanny. Known for its rich cultural history and

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extensive collection of artwork, the museum also bears a reputation

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for being one of the most haunted places in the city.

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Central to its supernatural lore is the enigmatic painting of Clarita,

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a masterpiece that has captivated an un settled to visitors

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for decades. Legends surrounding Kladita, combined with mysterious phenomena reported

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within the museum's halls, have cemented its place as a

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nexus of art and the paranormal. As always, though I

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feel like with something like this, you know, it's a

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piece of history. It is a very old painting. It

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has a lot of history behind it has a lot

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of lore behind it. And so that's just generally kind

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of the belief around here on Susto, right, is that

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when there's history with something, when something is old, it's

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collected more energy than something that is newer. Right, Especially

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with her story, which is terrible, It's like she was

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an outspoken woman. She said, no, I don't want to

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be trapped in this marriage that I didn't agree to

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when I was a child with this person that there

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was talks in some of these articles as well about abuse.

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So she don't want to be with this person. She

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just wanted to live her life. And even to this day,

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you know, someone like this would be frowned upon. Women

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are to be seen and not heard, and to be

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subservient and traditional and only in the home. And if

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that is what specific women want or specific people want,

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that is up to them as individuals. It should not

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be an idea that is placed on an entire gender, right, right,

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I know you get it. Anyway, this continues. At the

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heart of the museum's haunted reputation is the famous painting

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of Claudita. The portrait, an exquisite example of nineteenth century realism,

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depicts a young girl whose delicate, yet haunting gaze seems

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to pierce through time. Legend has it that the painting's

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eyes follow visitors as they move around the room, creating

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an eerie sense of being watched. This phenomenon, though often

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00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.359
dismissed as a trick of perspective, has left many uneasy,

464
00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:38.079
with some claiming to feel a deeper, almost sentient presence

465
00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:40.519
emanating from the artwork. You see. That is one thing.

466
00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:43.119
It's one thing to see something and be like, oh,

467
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.839
that it looks creepy. It's doing a weird thing, versus

468
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.720
to be like, that looks creepy and it feels creepy.

469
00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.039
I don't know if that makes sense, because I definitely

470
00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:52.720
see the difference. I've seen things that are like, Oh,

471
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:54.759
that's a little weird or that's a cool kind of

472
00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:57.160
like illusion or effect that it's doing, and then to

473
00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.400
see something else and be like, no, this is giving

474
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.759
me a feeling. It reminds me of when I went

475
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:05.000
to again to Nicole in Damien's house to record an

476
00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:07.359
episode for a pair of peculiar, which if you haven't

477
00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:09.759
listened to go check it out. They showed me this painting,

478
00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:11.559
and I think I talked about it already, either on

479
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.519
TikTok or on YouTube somewhere or on here, But they

480
00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.960
showed me this painting that was given to them by

481
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.400
someone because this person didn't want it anymore. When they

482
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:22.960
first showed it to me, oh, I was like, Oh,

483
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:25.799
this is an interesting painting and I like looking into

484
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:27.319
the eyes of it because it was a portrait of

485
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:30.799
a person. Like I physically stepped back when they kind

486
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.480
of like unrolled it and showed me because I felt uneasy.

487
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.400
It gave me a feeling, and I was like, oh,

488
00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:38.000
I don't like this, But you know, that could have

489
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.319
been any of the other probably hundreds of haunted items

490
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.480
in their museum that was doing that to me. But anyway,

491
00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.400
that's what I'm thinking of reading this now. This continues,

492
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.599
Gladita's story adds another layer of mystery. According to local lore,

493
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.559
the girl depicted in the painting met an untimely and

494
00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:58.480
tragic end, leading to speculations that her spirit lingers within

495
00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.880
the museum. The painting, some say, acts as a vessel

496
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:05.160
for her restless soul, creating a link between the physical

497
00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:09.039
world and the supernatural, which again that's another one of

498
00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:11.119
the what do we call them? We need to have

499
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:13.400
a name for these things, like the Sustal tenants or

500
00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.440
like the Sustal Commandments or the rules of Sustal. Like

501
00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:19.200
if it was traumatic, it's haunted. I don't know, but

502
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:22.279
you know, her story was traumatic and it was really sad,

503
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.839
and there's a lot of energy behind the way that

504
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:28.519
she passed like tragically, kind of like forced to remain

505
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:31.640
isolated and like away from living her life. Like she

506
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:34.319
was such a free spirit, is that's what I see

507
00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:36.359
when I read about her. She was a free spirit

508
00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:39.079
and she was truly just like caged and trapped. So

509
00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:41.200
maybe you know, there is a link to this painting

510
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:43.960
of in her girlhood, she probably had more freedom because

511
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.759
she was like, oh, she's a kid, you know, like whatever, Like, yeah,

512
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:48.039
we don't want her to behave like that, but she's

513
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.440
a child. There's some wiggle room, some leniency, right. But

514
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.519
then when she was fourteen, that's kind of when things

515
00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:56.279
went downhill. They married her off and she was just

516
00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:58.920
she spent the rest of her life after fourteen fighting,

517
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.319
So maybe there is the link to this representation of her,

518
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.960
because she was ten when this portrait was painted, so

519
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:07.480
she's maybe seeing this and remembering, like what I mean,

520
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:09.319
in honesty for all of us, Hey, what a great

521
00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:11.440
time it was to be ten years old when we

522
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.839
weren't paying bills or having responsibilities or dealing with this

523
00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:21.480
government anyway. Sorry. This continues to talk about some paranormal

524
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:25.079
activity in the museum, and it says the Blandnest Museum

525
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:29.039
has become a hot spot for paranormal enthusiasts social field trip.

526
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.680
Are we ready, it says, many of whom report unexplainable occurrences,

527
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.279
particularly when the painting of Gladita is moved. So that

528
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.400
is something that we included in the story. And by

529
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:42.119
the way, rendo of applause to Jeffrey Doyle, if you

530
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:44.839
liked it, give it a big old thumbs up comment,

531
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.039
five stars, whatever you'd like. And this continues. Staff and

532
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.960
visitors alike have described an unsettling energy in the museum

533
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:55.279
during such times, so whenever they're moving the painting around,

534
00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.720
they're like, that's when she pops off. With reports of

535
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:01.519
cold spots, flickering lights, and even the sound of faint whispers.

536
00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:04.240
Echoing through the halls. I feel like a museum is

537
00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:08.240
a really good space to haunt, right, I never really

538
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:13.039
have thought about like haunted museum art, natural history, science museums.

539
00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:16.400
I think purely for the acoustics, the museum is a

540
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:20.079
great space to haunt. This says some staff members recount

541
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:24.480
objects in explicably shifting positions or falling without any apparent cause.

542
00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:28.279
Others have reported shadowy figures darting across the room, or

543
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:31.960
seen fleeting reflections of a girl in mirrors or glass

544
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.960
cases near the painting, so she's hanging around there. The

545
00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:38.400
most striking stories involve feelings of being touched or pushed

546
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.279
when standing too close to cleud eat those painting, as

547
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.680
though an unseen force is warning people to keep their distance.

548
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:46.319
Which also, you know, that's just those are just the

549
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.599
rules of any museum. Don't touch the paintings, please, you

550
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:51.160
know that little wire at the bottom. I can have

551
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:55.279
a store for y'all. One time I went to the

552
00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.200
was it the MoMA or the met No, it was

553
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:00.680
the Met, the Metropolitan Museum in New u York. I

554
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.000
went when I was like twenty twenty one for my birthday.

555
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.319
A shout out ned I Saun Richard for helping me

556
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:07.960
get over there for my birthday, for taking me. We

557
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.680
went to the Met Museum, and it was my first

558
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:13.119
time in New York and I didn't realize I didn't

559
00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:15.200
know what a New York block was, you know. So

560
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.880
I was tie ured because I'm from the valley where

561
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.039
we live in pockets and communities. We really it's not

562
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.880
really walkable, and even then, like a New York block

563
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:27.160
is very different from whatever. So we were at the

564
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:29.319
Met Museum and I was like tired. It was a

565
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.039
long day. And we went into this room and it

566
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:33.960
was this huge room and like in the center of

567
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.319
it there were these Egyptian artifacts and things were like

568
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:40.359
you know, they had little wire they were in cases,

569
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:41.880
and I was like, oh, like so cool whatever. But

570
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.839
I was exhausted. So we walked in and this whole

571
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.680
room was not I don't want to say Egyptian themed.

572
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:49.400
I feel like that kind of doesn't put enough. It's

573
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.880
not a theme. It was very immersive, is what I'll say.

574
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.079
Everything everything looked like it was like the like carvings

575
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:57.240
on the walls and this and that. So I go

576
00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:59.720
and I'm leaning against the wall where there is no

577
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.640
sign there's no wire nothing. I thought in my twenty

578
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.200
year old mind, I was like, oh, it's decoration. They

579
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.279
like decked out the walls to like make it look

580
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:10.519
you know, cool whatever. So I'm exhausted, so I'm just

581
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:13.240
like leaning against this wall kind of looking at everything,

582
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:18.359
and then I start hearing sir, sir. Finally I turn around.

583
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.400
I was like, like, they're talking to me, and they're like, sir,

584
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.000
please get off of the artwork, Please get off of

585
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:28.000
the artifacts. Huh what I was like, Oh oop, sorry,

586
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.799
like immediately got up. I didn't know there was no wire,

587
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.359
no sign nothing. I was like, oh, it's just a wall,

588
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.279
like they made it look Egyptian to fit all of

589
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.319
the exhibits in here. And apparently there's signs up in

590
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:42.079
that room now, So sorry everybody at the met but

591
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.359
you had to put a sign up because of my

592
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:48.279
tired ass. So this continues. Visitors who lingered near the

593
00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:52.039
painting often describe a sense of being scrutinized, as if

594
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.720
the girl in the portrait is aware of their presence.

595
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:56.640
I thought, this is an interesting choice of words. This

596
00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:01.000
is a translated from Spanish to English, so I'm wondering

597
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.920
about the word scrutinized. Is it directly translated? Does it

598
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.559
mean something else? I'm like, is she out here judging

599
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.759
us while or watching her painting? I mean, hey, go

600
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:11.440
for a girl. If I was a ghost, I'd probably

601
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:13.720
be making stank face all the time at people. I

602
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.200
have a hard time not doing it now. But anyway,

603
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:16.680
it says as if the girl in the portrait is

604
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.119
aware of their presence. On rare occasions, individuals have claimed

605
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.480
to see the girl's expression change with subtle shifts in

606
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:26.079
her smile or the glint in her eyes, adding to

607
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:29.440
the painting's mystique. Which is interesting because it's a painting, right,

608
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.079
so I feel like the reflection in the eyes it

609
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:34.759
shouldn't move. That's painted on. But people are saying that

610
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.319
they see the glint in the eyes shift, or she's

611
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:39.640
got a little smirk, or she like her face changes,

612
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.319
she's trying not to laugh at people. Creepy. We're getting

613
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:43.759
close to the end of this. One talks about cultural

614
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.759
and historical significance of the museum and it says, beyond

615
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.119
its haunted reputation, the Blondness Museum is a cornerstone of

616
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.039
monte Villeo's cultural heritage, named after the renowned Uruguayan painter

617
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:57.039
Juan Manuel Blani is again. I guess I don't know.

618
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.960
I guess he just turned out like it said, he's renowned,

619
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.480
and they were like, he's so important, let's give him

620
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.920
this museum. But I wonder, like, I don't know. I'm

621
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.680
just very curious about what the process was for it

622
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:11.320
to be that house. Specifically, I'm like, I'm unable to

623
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:14.639
let go of that thread for whatever reason. But this continues.

624
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.800
It houses some of the country's most important artistic works,

625
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.079
attracting visitors from all over the world. However, the painting

626
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:24.559
of Claudita has given the museum an additional layer of notoriety,

627
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:28.119
making it it must visit for those intrigued by the supernatural. Well,

628
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.960
I want to visit it. I must visit it. On it, Okay,

629
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.920
I need spooky sugar daddies. If you're out there, please

630
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.719
hit me up and send me on a Send me

631
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.239
and Jeff. There's two of us. Okay, send me and

632
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.760
Jeff on this spooky world tour to visit all of

633
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.599
these places. We need a soustal field trip. This continues.

634
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:49.559
The blending of art and paranormal intrigue has turned the

635
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.480
museum into more than a cultural institution. It is a

636
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:56.400
living legend. Local legends and ghost stories draw in visitors

637
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:59.840
who might otherwise overlook such historical sites. This duel I

638
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.920
entity as both a cultural hub and as a haunted

639
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.599
site adds to the museum's charm, making it a unique attraction.

640
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.960
You know, I feel like Sustal and this go hand

641
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.800
in hand. We talk about history and culture, but we

642
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:14.360
also talk about the paranormal and the scary stuff. So

643
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.159
I feel like we need a Soustal museum or put

644
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.440
me in an exhibit. So I don't know this. This

645
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.559
is just me having a big head about it, inflating

646
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.199
my own ego. But I don't know. Hey, more manifesting.

647
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:29.079
This finishes up here. It wraps up with explanations and speculations,

648
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.880
and it says the museum's haunted reputation has sparked both

649
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:36.599
skepticism and belief. Rational explanations for the painting's alleged phenomena

650
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:40.320
often center on psychological factors, such as the power of suggestion,

651
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:43.960
optical illusions, or the eerie atmosphere created by the dimly

652
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.440
lit museum and its historical artifacts. What did I say

653
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:49.719
earlier museums seem like prime haunting spaces. I feel like

654
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.360
I don't hear enough, and that might be just a

655
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:57.280
meat issue about haunted museums or museums being haunted. This continues. Still,

656
00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:59.960
these stories do a little to explain the consistent report

657
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.679
of unexplained noises, temperature fluctuations, and shadowy apparitions. Which also,

658
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:10.159
I feel like museums are typically already cold, right, the

659
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:13.199
air itself, the temperature like they're cold, So I feel

660
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:15.719
like it would be harder to get a cold spot,

661
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:17.639
be like, WHOA, where'd that come from? Right? I don't know.

662
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:19.559
The museums I've been in, they're usually cold. But this

663
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.239
finishes up here. Believers argue that Gladita's spirit, if truly

664
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.960
tied to the painting, might be expressing a need for

665
00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:29.719
acknowledgment or resolution. They suggest that her tragic story and

666
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.719
the intense emotion captured in the portrait create an energy

667
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.760
that lingers within the museum. That's what I said, affecting

668
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.639
those who come into contact with it. I really want

669
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:42.199
to go to this museum. Spooky sugar daddies, please get

670
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:43.880
me a plane ticket. I want to go here, and

671
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.039
I want to talk to her painting and be like, hey, girl,

672
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.559
your story is out there. People are listening to it.

673
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:51.480
The ghoul friends over at Susto We've got your back.

674
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.639
Your parents are shitty for doing that to you. Your

675
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:58.119
husband Jose was a weirdo. Kladiita's my girl. Sorry, She's

676
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:00.199
not sorry. Actually she is going for sure in the

677
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.920
even though she's not a cryptid, she's a spirit, but

678
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:05.519
she's going under that cryptid femmes file of these of

679
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.519
these ghosts that I adore. So the next door is

680
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:09.920
I'm not going to read too much about it. I

681
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:11.679
do just want to kind of plug it because it

682
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:13.480
looks so cute and I need to find this so

683
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.559
I can buy it. This is just titled Ghostly Friendship

684
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:19.559
The Ghost of Blannest Museum by Lao Moraiti, And this

685
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.400
is about a book. It's a kid's book about the

686
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.920
ghost of the Blandness Museum. It's just kind of talking

687
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:27.159
about the book, and it's a little sad at one point.

688
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.599
It's just it's a cute, spooky kids book, and you

689
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:31.079
know how I feel about those. I'm going to of

690
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:33.079
course put a picture up here for the video because

691
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:35.599
the cover is adorable and it shows the piano and

692
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.400
a man singing or playing the piano with this ghostly

693
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:41.480
woman that I'm assuming is Ladita, and yes, and her.

694
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:43.559
There's there's a little I'll put the picture up here

695
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:45.079
too so you can see it. But there's a page

696
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.199
that shows him talking either to or in front of

697
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.599
this painting, which looks like it's like the cartoon version

698
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.920
or the like a kid's drawing version of of the portrait. Yeah,

699
00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:58.000
I'm definitely gonna buy this for sure, because it's adorable

700
00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:00.440
and I love spooky kids books. I don't know why.

701
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.440
I think it's so sweet. The next source that we

702
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.280
have here is from basseo bor dot net. It's the

703
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:08.880
I want to say this is a blog but written

704
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:11.920
by Andrea Krappman, is what I'm picking up from looking

705
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:13.559
at this. There's a title here I think it says

706
00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:18.039
Socio Digital Researcher in Communication and Anthropology. And this is

707
00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.480
says Glada Garcia de Zuniga the woman hidden behind a painting,

708
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:24.679
and it says this painting of a girl with a

709
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:28.440
combative gaze. I love that a combative gaze. That's a

710
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.400
good way to put to put it for sure. Is

711
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.679
located in the Guinta de Rafo in the Brado neighborhood

712
00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:36.280
of monte Video. Today it is housed in the Juan

713
00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.079
Manuel Blanis Museum of Fine Arts. Of course, it talks

714
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:42.079
about who he was and again that she owned the

715
00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:45.280
estate from eighteen seventy two to eighteen eighty five. Both

716
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.920
painter and subject went down in history in different ways.

717
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.119
Absolutely they did. It seems like he became revered and

718
00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:54.000
like uplifted and people loved him, whereas her she was

719
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.480
just constantly shocking people because she was simply living her life. Right.

720
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.920
It says also here that their destiny's crossed on occasions

721
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.079
that he painted her. This one says he painted her

722
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.199
when she was six years old, and the other source

723
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.559
says ten. So we'll just say somewhere between the ages

724
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.119
of six and ten is when this was painted. It

725
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.920
was one of the first academic portraits that he created

726
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.679
before training in his discipline in Italy. Okay, so that

727
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.239
answers our question from earlier that this painting was done

728
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.719
before his formal training. Yep. This says she was born

729
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:25.320
on April fifteenth, eighteen forty five. This also says that

730
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.360
she spent her childhood in Aargenthina, and then her family

731
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:31.360
moved to Uruay at the age of nine due to

732
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:34.760
political differences between her father and the governor of entre Rios,

733
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:37.880
which is where they lived I believe was entre Rios Argentina.

734
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.360
For Glada, in addition to experiencing the stress of moving,

735
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:43.719
her parents, since she was a quote very free spirited girl,

736
00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:46.719
decided to marry her off when she was fourteen. As

737
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:49.119
we read already, so I'll read here, I'm gonna probably

738
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:51.159
say some things that I said before, but it goes

739
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.920
into that. It covers the abuse that we mentioned earlier,

740
00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:56.039
and it says time passed. In the moment arrived, nothing

741
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.440
changed her father and mother's minds. Glada married Jose Maria

742
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:02.239
Zuvidi Yeah thirty six, an aristocrat from the Rio de

743
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:05.519
la Plata region, at fourteen. It worked out as most

744
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:08.280
such arrangements do, I mean, but did it really? Who

745
00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:10.800
did work out for? Despite this, she continued to rebel

746
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.119
against the macho culture based on the Victorian tendencies of

747
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:17.280
the time. In monte Video. At that time, upperclass women

748
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.360
could only inhabit two spaces, the home or the church.

749
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:24.280
For Gladita, neither were comfortable peaceful or violence free spaces,

750
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.559
so she inhabited the spaces she wanted, going against the

751
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.599
tide of prejudice and the increasing abuse. I will think

752
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.159
it is very interesting. I'm not sure how intentional this was,

753
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.039
but it comes off as very intentional. Is they said?

754
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.480
You know, as mentioned, the only places for a woman

755
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:41.400
at that time were the home or the church, and

756
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:45.559
neither of those were comfortable, peaceful or violence free spaces.

757
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:47.719
Which I think is something that people shy away from

758
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:50.400
too much, is that the church is not a violence

759
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.480
free space period. I'm just going to end that there

760
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.199
before I you know how I can get this, says

761
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:58.599
jose Maria Zubdia. Her husband abused Gladita for a long time,

762
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.400
almost all of her adolescent sense, from the moment they married.

763
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:03.320
In the early years of their marriage, they had two

764
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:06.159
daughters and a son. Who knows how much harassment and

765
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.159
severe abuse she must have endured that she ran away

766
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.400
with her children. She settled in the Villa de las Duranas,

767
00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:15.719
which is now the Blannis Museum, her family's summer retreat.

768
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.719
For a long time she felt free, so she separated

769
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.280
from her husband. The abuse of Jose Maria Zuvidia, and

770
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:26.920
she fled to what was her family's home, which is

771
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.280
now the museum right it says for a long time

772
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.800
she felt free. She began to enjoy her outings to

773
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.800
cafes and social gatherings, decided how she wanted to raise

774
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.679
her children, enjoyed her body, and maintained social and romantic

775
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:41.159
relationships with whomever she pleased. However, she also began to

776
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:44.000
be harassed by her husband, the moral institutions, and the

777
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.199
criticism of high society, to which she belonged by birth.

778
00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:50.519
During this period, Clada had lovers and more children. One

779
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:52.679
of the most famous lovers with whom she lived for

780
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.199
a time was at Neesto de las Garreras, which we

781
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:57.760
talked about him earlier. The result of this relationship was

782
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.119
a son. This said that she had five Okay, So

783
00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:04.480
then I wonder, now, maybe if I misinterpreted that earlier

784
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.559
it said that she had five children. I thought that

785
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.280
she had five children with Ernesto, but I'm thinking maybe

786
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:13.559
they were not all from a nutzl. But notably she

787
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.440
had a son once on with Ednesto, and then the

788
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:18.840
other four children from I don't know who. But anyway,

789
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:21.079
this continues the result of this relationship was a son,

790
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.719
the celebrated writer Roberto de las Garreas. Despite everything, her

791
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.159
life was a nightmare. Her husband filed countless legal disputes

792
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:30.599
against her, so again, Jose, because they were separated but

793
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:33.280
maybe not legally divorced yet, so he filed countless legal

794
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.440
disputes against her. Later, she was stripped of her childcare right,

795
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.400
so she had her custody taken away, and she was

796
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.039
accused of being immoral and dishonest for wearing brightly colored

797
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.480
dresses with low necklines and wearing her hair loose. Literally

798
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:47.559
what I said earlier. She showed an ankle, she showed

799
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:50.199
a wrist, and they were like, that's it. This woman

800
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.599
is a monster. It continues having which is ridiculous, But

801
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.360
this continues. Having obtained a court ruling in her favor

802
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.679
obtaining a divorce, her ex husband continued to plot strategies

803
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.280
to cont knew his harassment. So even after he took

804
00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:05.480
her children away and he gained full custody of the

805
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:08.559
kids and probably smearing her name all over town, we

806
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:11.360
can only assume, and even after the divorce, he was like,

807
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.719
that's not enough. I'm going to continue to harass her. Finally,

808
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.440
the sexist society, her husband, the clergy, and even her

809
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:22.119
family declared her insane. They built a loft in Villa

810
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.920
Duranas and imprisoned her there for many years until her death.

811
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:29.039
The truth is that after this ruse, those who declared

812
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:32.559
her insane remained the executors of her vast fortune. How

813
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:35.480
very convenient, right, They're like, ooh, we got to lock

814
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.199
her up, she's lost her mind. We'll just go ahead

815
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:38.880
and take care of all her money and her property

816
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:40.760
for her, though, don't We got it over here, right,

817
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:43.400
This continues glad A story, however, is a story of

818
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.119
a woman demanding freedom and equality in a discriminatory and

819
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.039
sexist society. Not only the importance of her words documented

820
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.519
in the files of her complaints, but also her strength

821
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:57.800
and consistency in speaking out against the systemic sexist harassment

822
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:01.719
to which she was subjected for a lifetime. Again, that's

823
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.159
tragedy in not only her passing, but the majority of

824
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:07.599
her life, everything that she had to fight through, as

825
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:10.079
did I'm sure many women back then. Okay, I have

826
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:12.159
a couple more things before we finish up, but we're

827
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:28.159
going to take a quick break. Welcome back, well, friends, okay.

828
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.079
So the next source that we have here is from

829
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:32.760
lasiou Da dre Vista dot com and it says the

830
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.559
forgotten history of Glada Garcia the Zuniga. And so this

831
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.239
is I think a timeline of her life, and so

832
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:40.639
I want to go through it so we can get

833
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:42.320
more of like a clear idea. I know we've mentioned

834
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:43.679
things here and there, but I want to do a

835
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.960
clear timeline of this. This says for many Uruayans, Glada

836
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:49.960
Garcia the Zuniga is the ghost who at night moves

837
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:53.039
the paintings on display at the Blannis Museum, located in

838
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.079
the stately Elbrado neighborhood of monte Video. However, Glada is

839
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.599
from Entre Rios, born in Guaalaguaychu. And in this brief

840
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:02.920
article we will tell you part of this legend that

841
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.800
has become an urban myth in the eastern capital. So

842
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.719
this says early life. Clerica was born on April fifteenth,

843
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:11.719
eighteen forty five, as we know, in Campos Floridos. One

844
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:16.159
of her father, Mateo Garcia de Zunigas, ranches in Gualguachu

845
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.840
toi Rosalia de Elia al Saga. I remind you that

846
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:24.159
Justo jose de Urkisa was also related to the Alzagas

847
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.400
on his mother's side. He was an Argentinian general and

848
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:31.039
politician who served as President of the Argentine Confederation from

849
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:34.360
eighteen fifty four to eighteen sixty. Cladita was some sort

850
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.840
of relative to an Argentinian president. This continues. Who were

851
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:41.320
the Garcia the Zunigas. Alonso Mateo de Zuniga, who lived

852
00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:45.039
from sixteen ninety to seventeen sixty born in Seville, was

853
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.519
the one who started the family dynasty in the Rio

854
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:50.719
de la Plata. They were large ranchers with properties in

855
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:55.320
the Banda Oriental, Buenos Aidas and Entrerios. In entre Rios,

856
00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:59.960
the brevisterro Do tor Pedro Garcia de Zuniga hired Joseph

857
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:03.239
the Urgisa recommended by the Alzagas to manage the one

858
00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:06.480
hundred seventy six thousand hectares he owned. That's a lot

859
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:09.639
of land and the first Urgisa from Entridios was born

860
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.079
in the La Centella settlement. Glada's father, Mateo, was the

861
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:16.800
son of Esteban Justo and grandson of Alonso. He inherited

862
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:19.239
his father's land of again, all of this land one

863
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:23.039
hundred seventy six thousand hectares in Guallewaichu and became governor

864
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:25.840
of the province for a brief period of six months

865
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.559
in eighteen twenty seven. This continues about Gladita's childhood. Gladita

866
00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.280
was happy as a child. She used to run cross country,

867
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:35.320
climb trees, and bathe in streams, enjoying a freedom that

868
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:37.360
would soon be taken away from her. So yeah, she

869
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.199
was an extremely free spirited kid, as kids should be

870
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:42.880
just allowed to live their lives. And this says Matteo

871
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.119
was a recognized supporter of Don Juan Manuel de Rosas.

872
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.480
He owned more than two hundred armed peons who represented

873
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:53.199
a danger to the rebel Urgisa. Colonel Dumont, who owed

874
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:56.519
favors to Mateo, warned him of the possibility that Urguisa

875
00:46:56.639 --> 00:47:00.199
might decide to eliminate him. After Rosa's defeat, he decided

876
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:03.280
to completely change his surroundings and moved with his family

877
00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:06.480
to Montevideo. Essentially, now we know that the reason they

878
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.400
moved to monte Villeo from Argentina was because they were

879
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.480
in some sort of political danger. At the age of nine,

880
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:15.960
Glada's life was torn away from the places where she

881
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.719
had enjoyed complete freedom. But the girl was very restless

882
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.679
and refused to accept the canons of the time, so

883
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.920
she became a major problem for the conservative society of

884
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:29.280
the nineteenth century. Honestly, she really said, no justice, no peace.

885
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.400
If I'm not happy, you're not happy, why do you

886
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:33.440
do this to me? Then this goes on to talk

887
00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.199
about her marriage. This says Glada's unhappy marriage led her

888
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.079
own mother to consult with Jacinto Vera, the priest who

889
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:41.840
would later be named Vicar of monte Video and whose

890
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.880
name refers to a neighborhood in the Uruguayan capital. A

891
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.719
priest with a more conservative outlook in the church, he

892
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:50.119
advised her so advised her mom to place her under

893
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.480
the protection of Saint Anthony and marry her off as

894
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.840
soon as possible. At the age of ten, Glada already

895
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:58.119
had a husband designated for her, and so when she

896
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:01.599
turned fourteen, she was forced to marry Jose Maria Zuvidia,

897
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:03.840
twenty two years older than her. So they married her

898
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:06.519
off when she was fourteen, But when she was ten,

899
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.400
they had already decided who this guy was and probably

900
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:14.519
made the arrangement with him already which is that's disgusting.

901
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:16.400
Oh my god. Okay, So this says she was a

902
00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:19.400
transgressive woman because once marriage, she refused to be a

903
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:24.199
luxury quote slave who blindly obeyed her husband. So she said, listen,

904
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:26.079
they gave me away to you, but I'm not going

905
00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:29.199
to be subservient. I'm not what this isn't what you

906
00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.519
think it is, and good for her. This continues. Although

907
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.880
her divorce from her husband was finalized in eighteen seventy eight,

908
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.920
she had numerous lovers, one of whom was her lawyer,

909
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:41.199
Alberto Garcia Lagos. That's where I got the lawyer thing from.

910
00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.920
So yeah. One of her lovers was also her lawyer,

911
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:47.840
Alberto Garcia Lagos, with whom she apparently had several children.

912
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.079
So I think that's where the other four children came from.

913
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.199
And this says that by that point, when she was

914
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.679
with Ernesto de las Carreras and they had their son, Roberto,

915
00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:58.960
the writer that she was already the owner of the

916
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.559
Summer House, which is now the Blacknest Museum. Right. So

917
00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:03.880
this says in eighteen seventy two, upon the death of

918
00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:07.400
her father, Glada became the sole heir and an immensely

919
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:10.519
wealthy woman, but that day also marked the beginning of

920
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:13.320
the ordeal that would accompany her until the end of

921
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:17.280
her days. So essentially, when she inherited this property and

922
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:19.840
all this money, that's when the problem started for her

923
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:22.280
right because of the people around her. This says, her

924
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.360
husband immediately claimed possession of his wife, so suddenly he

925
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:27.280
was now like, okay, no, she's my wife again, even

926
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:29.119
though they had been separated and she was doing her

927
00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:31.599
own thing. Who had escaped with her children and bought

928
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.960
the Villa de la s Duranas. This continues in one

929
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.199
of her many court statements, and as she was being

930
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.880
reprimanded for her dissipated lifestyle, she told the judge, without flinching,

931
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.880
that she made love. Quote however, I please, and I

932
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:47.000
do it because I am free, very young, and completely

933
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.559
separated from my husband. I love that for her, This

934
00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:51.679
says it was an unequal fight, though that in the

935
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.599
end her husband got his way. He had the church,

936
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:58.679
the courts, conservative politicians, and society itself on his side.

937
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.880
The final result was that Clas was mentally insane. According

938
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.039
to them. They built a loft right in her home

939
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:06.679
where they locked her away. Of course, the main goal

940
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:09.440
was to seize her fortune since a quote mad woman

941
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:12.719
was incapable of managing it. Glada, however, did not die

942
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:16.079
in monte Video. Oh okay, so this changes everything that

943
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:18.400
I thought earlier, says she I forgot about this part.

944
00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:20.119
She didn't die in monte Video. It says that her

945
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:23.679
daughter Rosa managed to transport to Buenos Aidis, where she

946
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:27.360
died on September ninth, eighteen ninety six. The Roberto de

947
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.679
las Garreras, in his book Amre Libre left some words

948
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.440
that could be the best epitaph for Glada. Quote. No Victor,

949
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.960
be it Caesar, Napoleon, or Alexander has been able to

950
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:41.360
boast of having tied women to his chariot. Wow. So

951
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.360
it seems like her kids loved her so much so

952
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:46.440
that they weren't going to let her just rot in

953
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:51.039
this makeshift prison. Right, and her son wrote lovely words

954
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.599
about her. And the last thing that I have for

955
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:55.519
you is, like I mentioned earlier, I feel like we

956
00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:59.239
should hear more about museums being haunted or these haunting museums.

957
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.840
And so I was looking looking at haunted paintings and

958
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:05.599
I found this article on Cowlingandwilcox dot com and it

959
00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:09.440
says stories behind the most haunted paintings. And this is

960
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.920
just kind of a listical. I'll be putting pictures up

961
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:13.639
here in the video, but you can also find these,

962
00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:16.360
of course, very easy. So this first one, it's The

963
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:19.039
Hands Resist Him. It's a painting and I'll describe it

964
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.199
to you, but the pictures up here for audio only listeners.

965
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.159
So it looks like there's two children standing in front

966
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.239
of this maybe glass pane door. There's a little boy

967
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:29.880
and this looks like a little girl. She kind of

968
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:31.480
looks like a doll, like there's a hinge on her

969
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:34.760
elbow and her eyes are completely blacked out. But the

970
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:38.360
door behind them, there's a glass pane door. It's dark,

971
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:40.960
but you can see hands up against it. I don't know.

972
00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:43.280
It's called The Hands Resistem. It says The Hands Resist

973
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:46.760
Him is a notoriously haunted painting completed by Bill Stoneham

974
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:50.119
in nineteen seventy two, depicting a young boy and girl

975
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:52.679
standing in front of a shop window. Though the artist

976
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:55.119
had no bad intentions, the painting has been blamed for

977
00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:57.960
the death of a gallery owner and the first critic

978
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:03.000
to ever review the painting. This is also my first

979
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.880
time actually going through these. I just saw this listic

980
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:07.079
on I was like, I want to leave this as

981
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.320
a surprise for myself too. So this is my honest

982
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:12.639
reaction to these. It says the painting gained a reputation

983
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.199
and it was sold on eBay with claims that it

984
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:18.159
was cursed, accompanied by a webcam video of the small

985
00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:21.000
boy climbing out of the painting. The little girl's hands

986
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.360
could be seen to be holding a gun, and people

987
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:26.119
claim she's forcing the boy out of the painting to

988
00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:29.000
cause havoc in the real world. It's also been said

989
00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:31.840
to cause strange things to happen when being viewed from

990
00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:36.280
fainting blackout's children screaming, and technology malfunctioning. I swear to God,

991
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.760
if any of this stops recording, maybe it's only like

992
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.320
the actual painting itself. I need to see what is

993
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:45.159
his video? This video of him climbing out of the painting. Ooh,

994
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.960
I need to find that. It looks like she's holding

995
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.719
something in this painting. Also this picture of this painting,

996
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:53.360
but it looks like a can or a tube or something.

997
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:55.760
It doesn't look like a gun. But that's creepy. Okay.

998
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:58.800
The next one is called the stagecraft or the hanging man.

999
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:01.719
So oh, I see it. So it looks kind of

1000
00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:05.159
like an old timey wooden wagon with those big wooden wheels,

1001
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.320
and there's like a red part of the carriage, and

1002
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.840
there's like the structure for like the fabric that goes

1003
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:12.719
draped on top of them, you know I'm talking about,

1004
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.199
But it's not there, but off to the side and

1005
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:18.760
kind of behind it, it looks like a person is hanging,

1006
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:21.119
but they're kind of blended into the trees. And this

1007
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.960
says this eerie painting is an adaptation of a photograph

1008
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:28.280
which was taken by commercial photographer James Kidd. The photo

1009
00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:30.000
was taken of the wooden cart and the figure of

1010
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.960
a headless man was only found after the picture was developed,

1011
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.239
with no evidence of it being taverned with The artist.

1012
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.719
Laura p was drawn to the photograph and she felt

1013
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.800
she had to paint it. Her oil painting of the

1014
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:43.519
photograph was hung in her house, causing inexplicable events. She

1015
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.400
claims that it has been responsible for a mysterious leak,

1016
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:50.159
objects being knocked over, broken items, and even mysterious knocks

1017
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:54.000
on doors. Laura has had many offers to buy the painting, however,

1018
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:58.079
fears what will happen in the homes of buyers? So interesting,

1019
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:00.800
So not even like the photo is the curse thing.

1020
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:03.559
It's the painting of the photo for whatever reason that's

1021
00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:06.519
causing it's absorbed the energy I don't know, and there's

1022
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.119
like all this paranal activity around it. No, thank you,

1023
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:10.880
I won't be having any of these paintings in my house.

1024
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.639
This next one is the Crying Boy, and it's just

1025
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.239
it's a picture of a little boy or painting of

1026
00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:18.440
little boy crying. But it's kind of like close up,

1027
00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:20.599
so like from like his shoulders up. He's kind of

1028
00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:24.039
looking over his shoulder, not directly like forward like letty

1029
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:26.079
get this painting, but kind of like off to the side.

1030
00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:28.599
And this says the crying Boy has been blamed for

1031
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:33.440
countless house fires. What Bruno Amadillo completed the painting as

1032
00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:36.239
part of a series of Crying Orphans and published it

1033
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:40.320
under the name Giovanni Bragoline. That's such a strange subject

1034
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:42.800
matter to cover. I wonder why, like, what was the

1035
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:45.159
decision behind that? It says he made many prints of

1036
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:48.360
the painting to sell to tourists following the Second World War.

1037
00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:51.360
That makes sense. Following its distribution, the painting has been

1038
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:56.280
found untouched and many burned down homes. Okay, found untouched.

1039
00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:58.360
In many cases, a story began to develop about the

1040
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.719
boy and the painting. Very importan words, it says, a

1041
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:03.880
story began to develop, so just made up things about

1042
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:06.679
this painting. It says his parents allegedly died in a fire,

1043
00:55:06.760 --> 00:55:09.239
and the orphaned boy cursed every home into which he

1044
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:12.159
was taken in. Despite no truth being found in this story,

1045
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.000
many people refuse to have the painting in their homes. Yeah,

1046
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.239
I'd be like, I don't care what the story is.

1047
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:19.880
You're telling me every house this painting has been and

1048
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:23.599
has burned down. Creepy. So this next one says the

1049
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:26.840
dead mother, And it looks like there is it's a

1050
00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:29.239
painting of a little girl. I'm assuming a little girl.

1051
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:33.159
She's wearing like black boots or stockings, a little dress,

1052
00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:36.079
and she has she's facing four and she has her

1053
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:39.280
hands covered covering her ears. And behind her there's a

1054
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:41.639
bed and it looks like there's a woman, like a

1055
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:44.840
pale woman too, laying in it because she has color

1056
00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:47.239
on her. But this person behind her in the bed

1057
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.880
is all pale like white, and it kind of looks

1058
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:51.840
like I'm trying to compare it to something. It's like

1059
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:54.039
it looks like it was painted with like, I don't know,

1060
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:56.880
maybe like chalks, or it reminds me a little bit

1061
00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:59.679
of is it kind of is it it's kind of

1062
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:02.599
like Picasso a little bit or I don't know. I listen,

1063
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:04.880
I am not an artist by any means. I don't

1064
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.559
know what I'm referencing that. If you see this, let

1065
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:09.400
me know if I was anywhere close. But anyway, this

1066
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.400
says the Dead Mother Edvard Munch, the famous painter known

1067
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:14.320
for the Scream. Okay, yes, that's what I was trying

1068
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:16.639
to think. It reminds me of that the scream. Interesting.

1069
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:19.360
I guess this kind of hands on the head thing

1070
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.000
is apparent throughout his paintings because the scream is the

1071
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:23.719
only one I've ever seen from this person that I

1072
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:25.920
know of. It says is responsible for the dead Mother.

1073
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:28.280
The painting shows a young girl with her hands at

1074
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.440
the sides of her face in shock or despair, with

1075
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:33.559
her dying mother lying in bed behind her. Much's childhood

1076
00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:37.119
saw the death of his mother and two siblings to tuberculosis,

1077
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.360
which appears to be the inspiration of the painting. Many

1078
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:43.360
people claim that they feel an easy around the painting,

1079
00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:47.599
with her eyes following them like Cladita, and the sounds

1080
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.360
of rustling bed sheets echoing near the painting. Ooh, spooky. Yeah,

1081
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.960
because she is this little girl is looking forward like

1082
00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:57.599
Clyadita is. But there's not a lot of detail in this,

1083
00:56:57.679 --> 00:56:59.519
so it's kind of hard. I mean, okay, I made

1084
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:03.480
a mistake. I leaned in and if you lean in

1085
00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:07.039
really closely, you can see like two tiny pupils in

1086
00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.039
this painting, which there's not a lot of detail. It's

1087
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:10.880
just so it's kind of these like like almost pale

1088
00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:15.360
blue eyes with just pupils dead in the center. Creepy.

1089
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:18.400
I don't like that this last one. There's not a

1090
00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:20.599
picture here for it, not that I see. Let me

1091
00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:23.199
see if I can find it really quick. But this

1092
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.559
is the oh I see it interesting. Oh, this is

1093
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:29.679
the portrait of Samantha Houston. And this says let me

1094
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:31.559
see what it says here for us before I start

1095
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:33.960
reading something else. It says, the seemingly sweet painting of

1096
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:36.079
a little girl has a dark story behind it. So

1097
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:39.119
she's just this little this little white girl again kind

1098
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.800
of Victorian I may be wrong, but like this long

1099
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.639
white dress. She's got cute little brown shoes on blue stalking.

1100
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.559
She's holding a bouquet of roses, and she's stating in

1101
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:49.679
front of curtains on a wooden floor, and she's holding

1102
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.079
a letter in the other hand, and she's kind of

1103
00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:55.239
like chinned down but looking up at the painter, almost

1104
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.079
like if you were the painter, but looking up above you,

1105
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:01.039
not directly at you. She's got length kind of like

1106
00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:04.679
strawberry blonde hair, and like a blue sash around her waist,

1107
00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:06.960
and she's smiling. She got little roe's cheeks. A cute

1108
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:09.880
little girl. But this says the subject. Samantha is said

1109
00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:12.000
to be the four year old daughter of a senator

1110
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:14.599
in Texas. That's why I went ooh in au Earlier,

1111
00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:17.800
Samantha's father brought his daughter when he stayed at the

1112
00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:21.599
Driscool Hotel in Austin in eighteen eighty seven. Y'all, I

1113
00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:23.800
promise I did not plan this. This is my first

1114
00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:26.639
time seeing this at all. And I'm in Austin right

1115
00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:28.280
now and the drist goal is right there, it says,

1116
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:31.159
oh oops, where she unfortunately fell down the stairs when

1117
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:34.159
playing with her ball since then. Her ghost is said

1118
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.239
to haunt the drist Schol where she died. Her painting,

1119
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.199
completed by Richard King, was hung in the hotel where

1120
00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:43.960
she died, and has focused the spirit's alleged activity. A

1121
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.760
bouncing ball can often be seen in the hotel lobby.

1122
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:50.239
Door handles beside the painting rattle, and her expression seems

1123
00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:53.440
to distort as guests view the painting. Guests have also

1124
00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:59.679
reported feeling nauseous or a falling feeling around the artwork. Interesting, wow, wow, wow,

1125
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:01.679
love that we went through this whole list and it

1126
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:05.000
ended on you guessed it a creepy portrait of a

1127
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.599
little girl, kind of like Laditha's. But the thing is,

1128
00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:10.599
these portraits are not They don't look creepy. They're just

1129
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:13.280
these portraits of these young women, but there are creepy

1130
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:30.119
stories behind them. Welcome back, girl friends. Thank you so

1131
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:33.280
much for joining me for today's episode, and again thank

1132
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:35.800
you for your patients two weeks ago when the last

1133
00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:37.920
episode was supposed to go up. Just to run through

1134
00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.440
those reminders from earlier again in case you missed them.

1135
00:59:40.599 --> 00:59:44.079
This month's book club book is The Witches of Elpaso

1136
00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.039
by Luis Herameio again, patrons get to vote on the

1137
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:50.239
books that we read. Patrons also have access to the

1138
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:53.000
book Club discord channel, and that is for the mid

1139
00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:55.840
and higher tiers, so you can check that out. But

1140
00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.280
you do not need to be a patron or be

1141
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:01.280
a part of those tiers to participate in the book club.

1142
01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.679
This is open to any and everybody. Just make sure

1143
01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:06.039
that you follow on social media that's at Sustal Podcast

1144
01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:08.199
on every platform so that you can keep up with

1145
01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:10.880
the meeting details and updates on the book club. But

1146
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:13.119
again this month we are reading The Witches of Apasto

1147
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:15.239
by Luis Hatamio and we'll meet at the end of

1148
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:16.960
the month. As always, If you would like to hear

1149
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:18.960
your own story on a Letters from the Beyond episode,

1150
01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.480
you can do so by visiting the website sustalpodcast dot

1151
01:00:21.519 --> 01:00:24.599
com or my link tree that's linkdr dot ee slash

1152
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:26.719
Sustal and hit that submit a story tell Me a

1153
01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:28.800
Story button and you can send in the story. You

1154
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.719
can also send it in photo, video, audio recordings, anything

1155
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:33.920
that you think is oogy spooky, and I will put

1156
01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:36.920
it either on an episode or on the social media pages. Also,

1157
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:39.280
please make sure to check out the YouTube that's YouTube

1158
01:00:39.280 --> 01:00:42.639
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the videos, comment on them, engage with them, let me

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know what you want to see on there. Like I said,

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I'm trying to be consistent, I've been posting videos on there,

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so to go check those out and let me know

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what you think. There are ad free versions of the

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videos on Patreon, and as always, you can support the show.

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It's easy, it's free by leaving positive ratings and reviews,

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sharing the show with your girl friends, with your coworkers,

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with someone that you are talking to randomly at the

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mall wherever you are. I don't know, but thank you

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for all of that support. Any and all support means

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so much to me. However, if you would like to

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support with your money dollars, you can do so by

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visiting patreon dot com slash sustal podcast. Check out the

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tears there, see if any of them work for you,

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and sign up. Who Knows and this episode's patrons are

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Liza Rachel, Alejandra Luth, April d Josette, Sam Mandy Jules, Laurie,

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Genie Desire, c Nedesa rachel A, Asusena, Marlene Chata, Laney

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Desire a Carla Ricardo, Vanessa, Marisa Nieves, Manormal, Iris, Mare Floor,

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Selena Nightingvelle Clint, Rachel w Thank you all so so much.

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Your support makes me want to paint beautiful, haunted portraits

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of each and every one of you. I will talk

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to you in the next episode, and until then notatas. Bye.

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