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Hi, this is Christina and Carmen and this is a
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Spooky Tee. It's the podcast for all things is Spooky, Hunting, Places, Myths, Legends,
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true crime in Latin America. I was going to say
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we're back again, but again, we were back last week,
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right right, right, Yeah, Yes, I have to warr everyone
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ahead of time that my case today is gonna I
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was angry. I've been angry since for a while now
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months actually ten months now that I've just lived with
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this anger inside of me and I want everyone else
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to be angry with me. And so the case today
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is triggering and it's angering and infuriating. So yeah, okay, okay.
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At the end of the episode, she'd be like, what's
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something that's making you made you laugh this week? And
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I already have mine? You have you, Yes, but I'm excited, Okay,
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I'm not looking forward to this listener story. Yes, before
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we get into that a listener story. If you have
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a story to send us, you can email as Spooky
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Taes gmail dot com. You can DM us at any
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of our socials. You can somebody on discord if you
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don't want it on the public discord for everyone to
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read it. Once you can just DM it to me
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directly on Discord. I'm on there. You'll find me. What else,
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the spooky hot line. I'm just going to tell you
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the number is in the show notes. Yeah, there's a
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lot of ways to get us your stories. We love
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receiving them. Okay, let's do this. Okay, So today's listening
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story comes from the one and only MJ. Shout out, MJ. Okay.
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My aunt pass along this story on Easter. It's like
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tradition in Latin America where weird stuff happens during the holidays,
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well on sadoo, and that is a well known tradition.
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It is, it is, and especially to MJ and her family. Yeah.
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On top of that, also known as the Solidad or celebration.
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That's Solidad the Maria in Spanish and Holy Saturday in English.
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My aunt, who's a devout Catholic, went to Mass to
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observe Holy Saturday. During Mass, my aunt heard groaning and talking,
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but nothing that was audible. However, she said it sounded
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absolutely horrifying. It makes me think of when her mom
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said her story and how the and then would just
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say you can't understand what aund Yeah, yes, yes, okay,
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uh In this observance of Holy Saturday, the Christ statue
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is taken to burial, and while this was happening, they
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were surrounded by letusas who kept on swooping on the
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Christ statue. My aunt was getting scared. There was a
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sound of what she said was cackling outside. Thankfully, it
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just ended there and nothing else strange happened. She asked
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others if they heard what she heard, but only my
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cousin did and everyone else attending didn't hear anything. As
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things are going to shed all around the world, she
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was worried it has something to do with that. Maybe
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it was a like a sign omen yes, omen, that's
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what the word I was looking for. Yeah, but yeah,
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that was m Jane's story that happened to her aunt
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on Eastern Definitely an omen yes if the omen the
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first omen tamien is that you. What's your topic today? Today?
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I bring you some legends from Kolima, Mexico. Shout out
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Colima listeners. Okay, First up, we have the legend of
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La Pierre Lisa, or the Smooth Boulder. In the heart
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of the city of Kolima. It is said that there's
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a formation of boulders with a smooth boulder, and I
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forgot to paste a picture in here, but then I
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wanted to see the smooth It's like a formation of
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like rocks and then one a big rock in the middle.
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But I call it a boulder because to me, a
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boulder is a big rock, right, yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
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So anyway, Yeah, there's this big rock in the middle
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of all the rocks, and it's so big you can
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kind of slide from it. Oh fun, and it's smooth.
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And while that sounds like fun, don't be tempted, because
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it is said that those who slide down Lapierre Lissa
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become tied to Kolima forever and can never leave. Yeah.
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They either fall in love Ekua Lima and stay there forever,
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which doesn't sound too bad. That's not Yeah, I was
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gonna say that's not too bad, or they die in Kolima.
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That's bad. That's bad. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. And
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so I mean, the rocks supposedly are still there, and
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it's like a tourist challenge to slide down and see
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what happens. All right, Well, you either fall in love
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or you die. If I ever find myself with Kalima,
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I'm gonna try it. We'll see which one happens. Okay.
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And next up we have the enchanted snake from the
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caves or las. Between the cities of Kolima and Comatlan.
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There there are some caves known as Lesqubitas, and it
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is said there's a hitting treasure there guarded by a
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giant snake. And it's also said that stranger whispers and
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presents can be heard and felt inside of the caves. Yeah,
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that's all I have for there. I forgot. I was
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going to look to see if there was anyone actually
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that went and experienced a story from there, and never
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got to do that. So that's all I have for
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Thesipeaa Laskitas okay. And next up we have La Casa,
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the La colina or the house on the hill. It
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sounds familiar, does it. It's in the city of Amdia. Well, okay,
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go on, I might have shared this a long time ago.
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So in the city of a Media south of Kolima,
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there's an abandoned house on top of a hill. It
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is said that a foreign family was killed in the
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home and then thrown into the water wheel located in
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their property. Very unfortunate for them and it said that
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come nightfall, the house no longer seems abandoned, and it
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looks like there's a party going on inside the house.
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And witnesses have reported walking by the home at night
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and you know, seeing the lights on, hearing music, and
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then they're invited into the house to party. Come morning,
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the house is once again in ruins, full of bats,
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and two the party guests horror. They realized that they
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were partying with dead people. Not fun. Yeah, fun, yeah,
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not fun at all. Okay, Next up we have Laguna
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la Maria in Comala, the city of Kamala. Does that
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sound samiliar to you? No, No, I love a laguna story. Yeah,
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so in English Lake Maria. So in Komala, there was
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once a couple named Jorge and Maria. Maria was a
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jealous woman while Jorgie was a party animal. That's a
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bad combination, Yeah it is. He loved to go to
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other pueblos to find fiestas, so he was basically lachna. Yeah. Yeah, Anyway,
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on one occasion, he didn't come home for various days,
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and Maria she was pissed, very yeah, she was probably pissed.
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She was so pissed. Yeah, properly pissed. Yeah. So, yeah,
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so she was so pissed that she called on Satanas himself.
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Oh that escalated for helpically, that's a big step there. Yeah.
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I don't know how she got from A to B. Yeah,
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B being the devil, right, B being Satan. Yeah, so
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she offered the devil her soul if you could assure
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her that Quodha would love her for eternity. Oh and
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some more days passed and Koti finally went back home,
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but he didn't see Maria anywhere. He looked all over
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the house and then the neighborhood, and then he asked
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a grandero and his neighbors for help. So soon they
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all started looking for Maria. Help with his neighbors, they
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were hacking away at the bushes, and so they got
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to the lake. And at the lake, they were surprised
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to find a tomb, but they were even more surprised
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to see Maria rice from set tomb. Oh yeah, yeah,
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that would be surprising to any one. Oh yeah, and
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Maria after rising from tomb, like like Jesus, Yeah, she
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floated to the middle of the lake until she fell.
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Like Jesus, she walked on water, well floaded, she floated
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to the middle of the lake and then she fell
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in and went under the water and just you know,
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stayed there. And I didn't see any more information aut
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you that. But since then the lake is called the
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Maria and it said that Maria's tomb is still there.
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Did she do anything? Not that I found or I
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didn't came looking after I saw this one story. Interesting,
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like it seems like her the old Devil didn't work
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out at all. She just died. Yeah, and that's why
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you don't make deals with the devil. When the nights
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are quiet, they can hear Maria crying from the lake.
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Then that's it. Wow? Is that all? Yeah, that's all
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I have? Wow, Okay, there was more like there was
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the the Bridge. Eight in did an episode on the bridge.
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But yeah, yeah, okay, with that, we'll take an ad
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break and we'll be back with my very depressing to
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crime story that I want all of us to be
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mad with me together, page together. Yeah, okay, and we're
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back ready to be angry. And yeah, I mean I
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warned everyone this is very depressing. So we're just gonna
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get and depressing and infuriating. We'll just jump right into this.
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So Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was a sixteen year old
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Mexican teenager living in Nogles, Mexico, and he was a
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very happy kid. He loved his mom, his sisters, friends, family.
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He liked being at home. When he wasn't at home,
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just hanging out, then he was playing basketball because he
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loved basketball. That was his other favorite thing to do
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and his His mom describes him as a good kid
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who again loved her so much. He also really liked
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cloudy days, chocolate cookies, and spending time with his sisters
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and he as you know, at sixteen, he would tell
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people that he wanted to be a soldier in service
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country and when his grandma would tell them, they say
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she didn't like that because soldiers were trained to kill people.
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He would tell her, no, Grandma, there's also good soldiers,
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not all of them are bad. But I want to
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be there because I want a career. When I finished
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with that, I'll stop being a soldier and dedicate myself
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to my career. That's my goal. Just you know, wholesome,
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like yeah, like a sweet kid. Yeah. He dreamed of
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writing in a plane. That was one of his biggest
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dreams and his mom promised him that she would take
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him to Guadalajara. They had a trip plan for a
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family first communion up there, and they were going to fly.
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And before once, this flight was scheduled and they were
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ready to go, and he was so excited. He would
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ask her if you could see the clouds in a plane,
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and she would answer, you'll see the clouds under you.
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Did I cry when I read that, yes, of course,
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because sadly he never got to get on a plane
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and see the clouds around him. His life was tragically ended.
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On October tenth, twenty twelve. So Hose was walking on
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a road along the border in Nogalle, Sonora, as border
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patrol agents and US police officers swarmed the US side
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of the border and they had received a nine will
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one call about suspicious activity. So this suspicious activity was
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that two men were seen climbing down the fence into
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the US side with bundles taped to their backs, and
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police officers responding to the suspicious call saw the men
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and they believed that these two men were carrying bundles
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of marijuana. Marijuana. I feel like I said that, we're
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the first time I didn't notice, Okay, well maybe I didn't,
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So the two officers I got their first called for backup.
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That's when Border patrol and US Customs agents swarmed the
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US side of the border. So all these officers, police,
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Border Patrol, US Customs agents, they saw the two men
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climbed the eighteen foot fence back into Mexico. And when
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they saw them climbing back, they were empty handed. Nothing
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was on their back. As these two men reached the
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Mexican side of the fence the border, someone began throwing rocks,
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and so officers on site all reported a similar story.
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Rocks were flying through the air and then they heard
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the sound of gunfire. In the middle of all this
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taking place, Jose was walking home from playing basketball when
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the two men that climbed back into Mexico ran past him.
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And it was at that moment that Border Patrol agent
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Lonnie ray Swartz ran up to the fence, pointed his
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gun through the gaps and staid fence and fired twelve times.
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Ten of the twelve rounds hit sixteen year old Josse
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in the back. He died thirty feet from the border fence.
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I am just already one because I remember this story
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from back then and it happened, Yeah, but also what
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what is the point, like why other than senseless violence,
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racism and hatred? What other than those things? What would
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shooting while people are running away? What would that accomplish? Yeah,
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like you're going to kill people on the other side
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of the border. That's not your country. They left, they
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didn't come in. It is not what you're trying to
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event solved, shoot them, right what like okay, so you
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shot them? And then what because they're not on your side,
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your supposed side, right if you're made up man made
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you know, border exactly, So why shoot them? Like you
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can't help them, Not that you would in the first place,
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Like your job is to devent entry into the US,
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right and to supposedly protect it and like prevent drugs. Well,
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they climbed back over. Also, they didn't have the bundles
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that were reported. Also they were like empty handed, right
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you said, yeah when they said when they were climbing
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back they were empty yeah yeah, So like why yeah?
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So in the initial reports, Border Patrol suggested that Hostel
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was among the rock throwers. Even if he was, Yeah,
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but he wasn't because witnesses disproved that They again verified
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that he was only walking home from playing basketball. And
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I want to note that the supposed gunfire that they
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all agreed they heard it was they never found a source.
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It was not identified because it wasn't real. They were
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lying to protect each other because there are a bunch