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Oh la ala. This is Christina and this is Carmen,
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and this is another episode of a Spooky Tale. It's
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a podcast for all things spooky, true crime, hunted, places, myths,
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legends in that in America. Today just spooky because we're
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still in catchup mode. I don't know when that's going
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to end. It might be all until the new year,
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the rest of the year, yes, it just might. All right, Yeah,
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let's get onto the episode today. First, I guess if
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you're on a Patreon, we just yeah, for like twenty
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minutes about our lives. Some people don't like that, some
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people do. If you do, go over to Patreon anyway.
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And for the topic today, I just found some creepy
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metro stories. There are some of my favorites to share.
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So I love a metro story me too. But before that,
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a listener story. And if you have a story that
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you want us to read, you can email as spookyos
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at gmail dot com. You can DM us on any
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of our socials. You can submit it on Discord, you
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can call the Spooky Hotline. All that information is in
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the show notes. And yeah, are you ready to read
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this story? I'm ready? All right? Listener story. So my
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dad grew up a noon rancho in Aguascalientes, Mitrakan. He
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would always tell me stories of the things he and
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his friend would do. Apparently they like to go to
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other ranchos for parties and sometimes to visit the ladies
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they had crushes on. Well. He told me that one
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night he and his friend were walking back at night
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from one of these parties. But it wasn't like when
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you walk around at night in the city with sidewalks
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and street lights. They were not at campo, using pathways
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to get through the various landscapes, using only the light
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of the moon to get around. Honestly traumatic, yeah, until
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something happens. And yes, something that happened. One night, as
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they were returning to their rancho, as they had done
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multiple times, they saw a red ball of fire floating
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in the distance. He said. Now, when they saw it,
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they all hid behind whatever they could find. They didn't
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want to draw attention to themselves. They watched the ball
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of fire for only a few seconds because they knew
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they had to get away from it, so they slowly
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circled around it, trying to be as quiet as possible.
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When they finally got around it, they continued on their
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way back home. A few minutes later, one of his
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friends decided to look back for whatever reason, and that's
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when they noticed that it was following them. At this point,
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they were too far from home, so they all just
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decided to run the rest of the way. He said
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it was crazy because the ball kept up with them
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and was even getting closer. Eventually, everyone split up and
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went their own ways home. He said he just kept
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running and almost ran through the front door of their house.
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Once inside, his mom asked him what had happened. When
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he told her about what they had seen, she told
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him mitter nuna ta la walpucci lawalpuci or witches from
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old Mexican folklore. They are evampiric in nature, with infants
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being their favorite victims. I have a friend who is
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in old school Blancho. She told me that every year,
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I think around December, the tla Wilpucci gather in Nunco
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and Laxcalat and that they appear as balls of flames
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gathered in a circle. So so the scariest witches. And
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that's from Israel. Thank you for sending your story. Yes,
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thank you so much for sending your story. And yeah,
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those are the scariest type of bruhas. Okay, so yeah,
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our topic metro stories. Why is elemetro so hunted? Don't know, Yeah,
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but it is. That's what they say. We've done metro
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train subway stories in the past and yeah, they're always
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just so fun, so why not do some more. These
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are only from Mexico, so just a little refresher about
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the metro system in Mexico where our first few stories
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are from. The train system in Mexico City is huge.
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It serves one point billion passengers annually and it's the
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tenth largest in the world, the second largest in North America,
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right after New York City. That metro in Suda at
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Mexico has been around since nineteen sixty nine, and it's
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been through a lot since then. It survived the devastating
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nineteen eighty five earthquake and then the devastating earthquakes that
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have followed since then. Ghost Stories usually grow after tragic earthquakes,
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but especially after nineteen eighty five. It has one hundred
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and eighty five stations and twelve lines. Like any big
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train system trporstation system, there's been very tragic incidents that
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have only fueled ghost stories. And here are some of
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them just very brief brief information on these. So on
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the twentieth of October in nineteen seventy five, two trains
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crashed in the via Ducto station while they were both
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heading towards the Taskenya station. The first train was stopped
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picking up passengers when the other one, I guess, didn't
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stop in time and just went straight into the other
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stopped train. And according to official reports, thirty one to
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thirty nine people died and seventy one to one hundred
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and nineteen were injured from this crash. And I guess,
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I guess there was no like automatic signals. They were
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manual signals to let other trains know someone was stopped
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there when this happened, and after this crash happened, they
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installed like automatic signals on all the lines. Another tragic
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incident that happened in the see the Mexico train station system.
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On September eighteenth, two thousand and nine, there was a
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man who was vand aligning the walls of the Valderra
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station with a marker before being confronted by a police officer.
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The guy who was doing the vandalizing took out a
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gun and killed the officer and a construction worker wow,
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and then injured five others. And then on May four,
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twenty fifteen, two trains were heading towards the Polytechnico station
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on nine to five and they crashed. The first one
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was leaving at Ragon station and then was requested to
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stop and wait. The second train, I guess didn't notice
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and crashed straight into the one that was stopped before,
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and twelve people were injured. This time, luckily, no one
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died on lots of crashes. Yeah. On March tenth, twenty twenty,
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not that long ago, two trains were heading towards Upset
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Vattorio station Online one and they crashed in the Takubaya station.
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The first one was parked at the platform when it
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was hit by another train that was coming in and reverse.
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And in this crash, one person died and forty one
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were injured, and it would have been more, but they
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were able to get out the second car before the
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crash occurred, like they were warned, and they were able
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to evacuate that whole train car. In twenty twenty one,
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the central control center that served lines one through six
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caught fire somehow, I'm not sure what caused the fire,
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and one police officer died during that fire. Then May
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twenty twenty one, there was another crash on nine twelve.
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Ooh no, this wasn't a crash. Sorry, something that was
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supporting where the train passes, like an overpass collapsed. Oh wow,
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And twenty six people died and seventy were injured. A
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lot of debts, a lot of injuries. That's why they're
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so haunted. Okay, and so story one, this story, you're
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gonna be listening to it and you're gonna be like,
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this isn't scary, but just wait, all right. So this
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following story takes place on line three. Pedro felt lucky
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to have found a job in Mexico City, working at UNAM,
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the university. His schedule was not a strict nine to
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five and there were a random start at end times,
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so every day he made his commute at different hours
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of the day. And during one of these commutes, it
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was nine thirty in the morning and he was excited
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because one of the cars it was pretty empty. There
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were only like twelve people. Everyone had a sea, which
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is rare, and so when he walked in, someone inside
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the car caught his eye. This person was around forty
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to forty five years old, super skinny, tall, very pale.
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He was wearing a white suit too big for him.
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It was light blue, and he was holding like an
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old gray hat in his right hand. His hair was
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neatly combed to the side. This person looked like he
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was straight out of the nineteen fifties, like nineteen fifties Hollywood,
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like the nineteen fifties Hollywood movie. Yeah, the person was
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definitely alive. Well he didn't know. The man had a
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very distinct smell death, no mothballs. The man was standing
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on the left side of the cars where the doors
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didn't open. That's where he stood, and for some reason
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Bethro found himself entranced he watched him. The man never
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made eye contact with anyone. He hardly moved. He was
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almost it was almost robotic, like the way he didn't move.
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But eventually the train did get crowded and Bethro lost
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track of the man by the time he got to
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his own stock and so this seemed like random, an
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unimportant efforts. But a couple of weeks later, Bethro saw
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the man again on his way to the general hospital.
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He'd sorry his work had him doing shifts between the
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General Hospital and the University. So he saw this man
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again on his way to the General Hospital, and this
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time it was almost seven pm and the man was
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wearing the same exam clothes, almost like it was the
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only setup clothes he had. Yeah, but this time he
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was sitting in the same general area, but sitting not standing,
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and he was acting the same, very cold, not making
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eye contact with anyone, not moving. You know, people like
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tend to check their phones or just scroll the whole
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time you look around. Yeah, this man wasn't doing any
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of that. And Betherro stared at him until he reached
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his own exit and the man had still got moved
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and he's like, this is so weird. And then for
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the next six months, he kept seeing the map sometimes
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once a week, and he was always wearing the same clothes,
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he was in the same spot, everything was the same.
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He noticed though over time that the man was never
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there during peak busy hours. It was always like when
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the train was kind of empty, and yeah, he never moved,
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never made eye contact with anyone, and it was always
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the same line line three. And like he even recalls
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times where the train like something happened where there was
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sudden stops and other people fell over, but this man
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never like moved, He was unfazed. He never saw when
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the man entered the train or left. He was just
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always there, Like bell would get on and the man
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would already be there. Another time, bell saw someone get
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on the train and ask passengers for money, and this
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person never asked the man. He just walked past him
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like he didn't see him. And that's when Belther was like,
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hmm something something. Yeah. There were times where he started
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seeing the man like three four times a week, and
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so he began to think he was going crazy because
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he's like, am I don't even seeing this? He's like,
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b are you seeing this? Are you? Are you? And
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the last time Bellro saw the man, it was nine
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thirty PM between Copilco and the Hospital General stations and
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he got onto the middle car and there was the man,
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and Bellro sat away from him. He's like, I don't
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want to say anywhere near him, and so he chose
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to seat next to a woman and he began to
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chat with her with the intention to ask her if
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she if she was seeing the man too. He's like,
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I need to know, and so they were just chatting
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for a while and then he asked the woman if
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she knew about any theater companies or if there was
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like any plays set in the nineteen fifties right now,
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and she's like, no, why are you asking me this?
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And so he was. He told her about the man
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that he had been seeing for months now and how
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he seemed to not be of this time. He looked
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like he would be picked up in place in a
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nineteen fifties movie. This man never moved, and when he
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was telling her all this, her eyes got super big
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and she told him, yes, the man that looks like
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he's straight out of a bedroom in front the movie
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it's weird, yes, and Bedro felt chills. He's like, oh
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my god, someone else saw him, and he's like, doesn't
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seem like he's not like actually here, like and then
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they ballterned and they're they're O, the man was. He
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was there the whole time. So they looked at him
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again and then she was like, it's so strange because
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it's like he doesn't end like fondo and she he
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was like, oh, yeah, I know what you mean. He
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seems two dimensional almost like not real, And they were
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just both like freaking themselves out talking about the man.
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And then like the man was still there and again unfazed,
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and so then the woman was like, I was gonna
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stop somewhere else, like my soop was not this next one.
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But I'm gonna get off the train with you because
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I'm not gonna be on here. It's too creepy with
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this man. Yeah, And it was so strange because it
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felt like as soon as they started talking to each
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other about the man, the train seemed to be going
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slower than normal, like time was slowing down, and so
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now they were extra scared, and he's like, yeah, yeah,
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no worries, hang out at my job with me. I
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don't even care, Like you're not staying on this train
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by yourself, And so the trains from when they started
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having that conversation to their next job felt endless. And
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finally the train stopped, and before they got up to
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actually walk out of the train for the first time,
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Pedro saw the man move to look at him, and
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the man smiled, Oh no, why is he smiling, and