June 13, 2025

Summer Break: Susto, La Taconuda

Summer Break: Susto, La Taconuda
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Espooky Tales is taking a break but here's an awesome episode from Susto podcast. This episode is about la Taconuda, a legend from Honduras.

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Hello, Hello, this is Christina and this is another episode

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of his Spooky Tales, the podcast for all things as

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spooky Hunted the places sometimes to crime in Latin America.

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But today is not a regular episode. Like I said

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last week, Carmen and I, we're taking a little short

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summer break for once, an announced planned summer break, but

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we're not going to leave you hanging. We have some

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of our podcast besties filling in for us at today.

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It is Aiden from Sousto, which I'm sure a lot

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of you know, but if you don't, you will now.

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And Susto, as I have said many times, is the

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podcast that inspired me to start as Pooky Tales. To me,

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the og of spooky Latine podcasts really the best out there.

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So what he does is amazing. He has an original

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story written about a legend, and he reads the story

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in his amazing spooky voice, and then he's like, hey,

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gol friends, guess what this is? What I know about this?

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And then he just deep dives into that legend. It's

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so fun. Literally, we love Aiden at a Spooky Tales

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and we hope that you enjoy this episode. This is

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a very fun one.

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Hey, cool friend, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,

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I am the host of the podcast Sustal. If I

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am new to you, allow me to introduce myself. Sustaal,

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the Spanish word for fright, is a show centered on

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paranormal folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures, and this week,

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your typical ghost hosts have been so generous as to

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allow me to take over their feed and haunt you

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with a chilling little tale. I hope that you enjoy

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this episode and that you enjoy Sustal if you would

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like to listen to more sustal. It is available on

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every podcast platform. You can follow me on social media

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at at sustal podcast on every platform, and you can

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visit my website sustalpodcast dot com. Thank you so much

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for listening. I hope that you enjoy this episode. Alma

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was on Cloud nine. It was her and her boyfriend's anniversary,

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and she knew it was the night he would finally

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ask her to be his wife, or so she hoped.

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Their plan was to meet at the final stop of

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his shift as a bus driver. From there, they would

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drive to the station, get in his car, and enjoy

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the evening that would mark the beginning of their new life.

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She slipped on her nicest dress, styled her long silky

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black hair, did her make up the way she knew

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he liked it, and slid on her favorite pair of heels.

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The bus stop was a short walk from her home,

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but Almah's excitement made her feel as if she couldn't

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get there fast enough. The whole way there, she imagined

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how he would ask her what food they would serve

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at their wedding, how handsome he'd look in a tuxedo.

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When Almah finally arrived at the bus stop, she was

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left speechless. Her lover adorned his bus with string lights,

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their song played softly from its intercom. He stood at

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the door of his five ton steed, dressed in his

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own best, holding a bouquet. Alma was right, She knew

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in her heart, in her soul, that he was going

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to propose. Her smile stretched across her face, illuminated by

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the glow of the lights as he began to profess

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his eternal love to her. He was nervous, like she

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knew he'd be, But at last he reached the end

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of his speech. Alma, he said, what I'm trying to

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tell you, to ask you is will you come? A

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piercing screech tore through their song, interrupting his final words.

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The lights grew brighter, blinding them Before they could realize

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what it was, A bright yellow car blazed through the

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red light at the intersection. It missed one car, then

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the next, before slamming into the nose of the bus,

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pinning Almah's would be fiance in its doorway, where he

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stood only seconds before. Almah's lover was dead on impact.

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When first responders arrived, she was frozen in place, eyes wide, shaking,

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and quietly crying She's in shock, someone shouted. As medics

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attended to her, trying to get her to respond. She

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overheard an officer telling another the taxi driver is going

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to make it. He said he was distracted by the girl,

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missed the red light and swore through traffic. Although she

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was physically untouched, Almah felt a pain so deep and agonizing,

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an excruciating sensation that never left her. Days later, Almah

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was found unresponsive in her home, still in her dress,

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her makeup she knew he liked, and her favorite heels.

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In the following weeks after her and her lover's passing

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taxi drivers throughout the city reported strange events. Footsteps in

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empty streets, a serial fair evader who seemingly vanished into

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thin air, leaving only traces of perfume behind. Strangest of all,

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and what made drivers and their shifts before sundown was

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the deaths of four taxi drivers. But these stories didn't stop.

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Oscar recently kicked out of his girlfriend's apartment when she

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discovered his infidelity. He needed quick money for his own place.

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He knew there was a driver shortage and took advantage

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of the situation. It wasn't long before Oscar fell witness

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to a bizarre late night inside. In the dead of night,

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he pulled over on a quiet stone paved road to

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take his break. Oscar rolled down his window to enjoy

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the cool breeze. He hummed along to the song playing

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faintly on his radio. He was tired after working days

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on end and late into the nights. He was nodding

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off when he woke startled by the sound of footsteps

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right by his car, but the road stood empty still.

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He could hear what sounded like high heels on stone

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in the distance. Brushing it off, he started his car

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and as the headlights came on, he jumped again. Standing

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in front of his car was a woman. Hey, beautiful, Nita, ride,

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he asked with a chuckle. Silently, she walked over to

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the back passenger side of his car. The vehicle's door

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opened and shut. While we're going to night gorgeous, he

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asked in a low, barely audible voice. She gave him

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an address, He plugged it into his GPS, started the

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fair meter, and they left. Oscar tried to make small talk,

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but was met with silent His questions became more and

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more personal. What do you do for fun? Do you

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have a boyfriend? Ever been at this cafe here? I

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could take you sometime. I'll take your number when I

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drop you off. What are you doing out so late?

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Looking so nice? Huh? Eventually Oscar became enraged when she

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would not answer. You know, he said, you could stand

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to be more polite. His GPS interrupted him with an alert,

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you are approaching your destination. More Frustrated now, he turned

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to continue, When a man is being nice to a

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pretty lady like you, you should show some gratitude. As

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he turned to face the beautiful stranger, he exclaimed, You're

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not even that pretty. The glint of her blade caught

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his eye, and before he could continue, she plunged it

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deep into his neck. His car continued to roll slowly

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down the road. He began to lose consciousness when he

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noticed the song playing was the same one as when

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he pulled over earlier, a song about lost love. The

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music began to loop and glitch in a way he'd

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never heard before. In his final moment, without a sound,

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the woman vanished and the smell of perfume filled his car.

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He could taste blood pooling in his mouth. He could

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see a hazy glow from above, the light from a

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bus stop. Welcome back, Wild friends. Okay, again, that was

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an original story. I hope you enjoyed it. It was

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very easy to write this story because there were good

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like bits and pieces about this story that already existed,

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and I kind of just took those things and instead

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of piecing those things together, I like, you know, the

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meme of that lady with the numbers floating around her

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face doing the math. That's me right now, trying to

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explain what writing is to you. But anyway, okay, so

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to get into it from what I saw, the sources

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that I used really heavily is this story is based

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out of Ondas, more specifically in the I think it's

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the capital of Ondudas. Yes, the capital Degusigalpa. And actually

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when I went to Honduras, I was very close to

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the capital, to Tegusigalpa. I am sad that I didn't

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hear this story. I don't think. I don't know if

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I was doing Susto then yet, maybe that was during

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my hiatus. I'm not sure, but I wish I had

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thought to ask or like to ask about scary stories.

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But also we were with a bunch of little kids,

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and so I'm sure that they didn't want to scare them.

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But anyway, so this story is based again out of

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the Gui and so we're going to go through the

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sources here. Again, the direct links to the sources are

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in the Susto Google doc. So the first one that

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I have here is from Rivista Chilena de Liratura and

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it's a it's an academic article that looks like from

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Universidad de Hyenne, Espana. And this article is titled the

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Weeping Woman, the Sejanaba and other Female Ghosts Typological configuration

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and legendary motifs Okay and there's just a snippet. This

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is like, of course, higher article about all of these

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types of as I like to call them here on

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Susto cryptid femmes. But they bring up the specific instance

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of the takunuda in English. I think it's just like

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a woman wearing heels, yeah, or like high heels, But

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in this instance it's la takunda as a woman or

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a person wearing high heels. This stimpot of this article says,

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on the other hand, there are stories that only describe

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the appearance of ghostly women on the road without adding

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the reason for the driver who put her in the car. Quote.

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A large light crossed in front of our car, and

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out of nowhere, when we turned to look, we saw

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women dressed in white. She was illuminated and looked half

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blurry because of so much light shining on her, to

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which is added in this endurant exhibition of the explanation

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of the reason for her death. Quote, A gas station

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worker told us that this ghost is of a woman

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who died in a car accident. He told us that

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she was with her family in a car and they flipped.

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The man says that only she died. These types of

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apparitions are characterized as malignant beings in many of the stories,

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as is this exhibition also from Mandudas quote. When someone

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is driving along downhill, that is when the driver turns

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to look in the rearview mirror, and it is at

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this very moment that the woman appears. That ghost has

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caused all kinds of accidents. Here Jarvi's lose control and crash.

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There's another part here, but before that. This reminds me

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of stories like is it like the is it the

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Donkey Lady Bridge? I think I remember growing up. If

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anyone listening is from the Rio Grande Valley, there's this

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stretch of road I think it's one oh seven in Edinburgh,

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like on the edge of or the outskirts of Edinburgh,

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and they would say that you there was there was

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a Why I think it was a convenience store called

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the Why out there. But they said that if when

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you if you drove past that late at night, that

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you would see a beautiful woman on the side of

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the road, and that you were supposed to offer her

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a ride. But before you got to the destination or

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when you like looked back, she wouldn't be there anymore.

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She would Vanish and they said that a different version

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of that same story was that if you saw her

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and you did not offer her a ride, that when

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you looked in the rearview mirror, she would be in

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your back seat and she would have the face of

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a horse. I think I may have mentioned this in

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the episode of the Donkey Lady Bridge, because this idea

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of a horse or a equine kind of shaped face

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is something I think that we see repeated in these

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types of stories. Okay, but this continues the same context

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serves as a framework for some legends about the Takududa

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told in Onduas. According to the testimony of informant from Thagusigappa,

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she is the girlfriend of a bus driver who died

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when his vehicle collided with a taxi. Since then, her

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ghost has wandered the streets looking for taxi drivers to

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take revenge on. When the taxi drivers pick her up,

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they look at her, and when they turn around to

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collect their fare, she was no longer there, and she

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doesn't make any noise or anything to get out. They

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say that when they turn around to look back, she

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is already there with a knife and stabs them and

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kills them. They say that she has already killed about

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four taxi drivers. That was a story from someone, and

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it continues in other Ondurdan stories. She is described as

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the ghost of a woman with high heels who is

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murdered in the streets by an individual who tried to

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abuse her. As in certain versions of Layorona, this figure

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is all associated with the motif of the contradictory perception

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of the feeling of danger and the proximity of sound.

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So I tried to add that in the story because

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again this is I think what we see with like Elsilbon.

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I think some people have said this about Latusa's or

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other kind of bird cryptids, is that the closer there

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sound is. So with Elsilon, it's the whistling. With la

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it's it's her weeping. With Latakunda, it's her high heels.

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The closer that you hear her, the further away that

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she is, versus the further away that she is, that

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means that she's actually nearby. So this just kind of

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echoes that it says. They also say that when footsteps

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are heard nearby, it means that Latakunuda is already far away.

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But if the footsteps were heard far away, it means

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that she is approaching. So again, I don't know what

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it is with this. Maybe I think maybe it's just

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a trope that people use in these kinds of stories,

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is to add this element of confusion or disorientation. It

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makes it more dangerous because you think you're safe because

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you would think, Okay, it's far away, I can hear

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as far. But that's not the truth. That's when you

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let your guard down, you're more vulnerable, and that's when

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they get you. Right. So yeah, just these kinds of

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I think interesting connections between these stories of women on

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the side of the road, like hitchhikers or whatever. But

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this one was interesting because there's a distinct story or

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a distinct cause for the reason that she haunts, right,

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is that and I guess tagically there's two is. Some

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people say that she witnessed her, her boyfriend, her lover

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being killed by a taxi driver. I think some people

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also go so far as to say that the reason

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that the taxi driver, and that's why I included it

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in the story, the reason that the taxi driver collided

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with the bus is because he was distracted because he

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was looking at her, and so she I guess Eventually,

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either she dies of a broken heart, maybe she dies

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by suicide. It's not clear how she passes, but her

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spirit is still so unsettled and so upset that she

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takes it upon her to seek revenge on any taxi drivers,

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which sorry taxi drivers, but if you're out there, be careful.

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And maybe you know that's falls into that realm of

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the types of stories that are meant to discipline us

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or to keep us in check. So I guess then

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you could say that the takeaway from the story is

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don't be a distracted driver, because if you're distracted and

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you're looking around, you're going to see Latakunuda and she's

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going to get you. And also plot twist, maybe this

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one is for the women and for the femmes, and

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the story now is don't objectify women. Don't be staring

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at women like pieces of meat and objects in the street,

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because if you do, she's going to get in your

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car and she's going to get you. And then in

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some versions she just simply disappears when they make it

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to the destination. So again, if you're not distracted, if

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you're keeping your eyes forward on the road, then you're fine.

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So the next source that I have here is from

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It's a blog called de Wustoon Duras and this is

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again about taxi drivers, but it also includes story of

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someone just doing chores late at night, so again it

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could be the whole thing of don't be out late

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at night. This one's kind of a short one. It

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says a neighbor from the Canadian neighbor tells of an

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encounter with a woman in high heels. It happened one

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night as he was used to staying out late at

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night in the blocks. He started smoking a cigarette and

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it was almost three am. The atmosphere was calm. Suddenly

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the wind started to get colder than usual, and then

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he heard footsteps approaching, but with the sound of heels.

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He saw the silhouette of a woman coming. He didn't

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pay attention to it. What surprised him later was that

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the woman wasn't moving. All he could hear was the

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clicking of heels. Immediately, he felt a chill run through

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his entire body, and without thinking twice, he ran out,

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and in the distance, he continued to hear the footsteps

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of heels as if they were following him. He entered

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his house and from that day on he tried not

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to wander around late at night, so again, behave stay home,

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don't be out late at night, because the la tachunula

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will get you. Another event that occurred in the same

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neighborhood in the blocks of Zone two, tells us that

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a young man was doing tasks in the early morning hours,

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approximately at one forty am, and that in front of

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the house he suddenly heard the sound of heels. He

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thought it was a neighbor who worked late and had

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just arrived home, But the strange thing was that the

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sound was short, only a few footsteps, and he did

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not hear any door open. Later, on another day of

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the same week, he had to repeat the same thing,

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staying doing chores in the living room of the house,

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and almost at the same time, he heard the same

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footsteps of heels again, and immediately, out of curiosity, he

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positioned himself to observe through a hole in the door

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while the sound of the footsteps came closer, hoping to

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be able to see who it was when they passed

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exactly in front of the house. But such was his

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astonishment when he heard the sound so close, as if

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someone was walking in heels in front of the door

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and did not see anyone, not even a silhouette. And

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to top it off, the blocks looked clear, and the

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young man felt an intense fear that he couldn't finish

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his task and instead went to his room to try

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and calm down. Could it be an evil ghost, a

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soul in pain, or simply a woman. This page was

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originally in Spanish was translated into English, so sorry if

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it sounded a little clunky, that's just Google Translate. And

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then again, there's another short version of the taxi driver

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kind of version. This one happens in another city in

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Honduras called dan Lee, and it says this event happens

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in this of the hills don Lee. It is the

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taxi drivers who narrate this mysterious event. They say that

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late at night, they're working on the streets looking for passengers,

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and they see a beautiful young woman wearing high heels

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stop them and they take her. She starts talking to

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the driver and says that she's coming from a party

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and it's late and she's going home. The taxi driver

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is driving according to the address that the young woman indicated,

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and suddenly he no longer sees her in the back seat.

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But instead she is walking on the sidewalk without realizing

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when she got out. There are several taxi drivers who

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have gone through the same experience without knowing the explanation

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for it. One of them supposes that it could be

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the sole in pain of a young woman who is

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perhaps assaulted and murdered when leaving a party. But the

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strange thing is that nobody knows her despite the descriptions

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and the detail that she is wearing very high heels.

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And I'm reading this verbatim. It says many taxi drivers

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no longer do the night route very often for fear

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of this occurrence, since one of their colleagues went quote

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crazy because of it. One of the drivers says that

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he pays close attention to who stops him, and if

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he sees that it is a beautiful young woman in

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a party dress and especially with high heels, he does

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not let her get in and speeds up. So he's

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just like, nope, sorry, sorry, okay, so so sorry to

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all the pretty ghouls in high heels like me, we

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just apparently can't get a ride. I think what I

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really like about this story is that when you strip

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kind of everything away from it, it's saying leave women alone,

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Leave women alone when they're walking at night. Unfortunately it's like, well, no,

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they should still get a ride. They need a ride

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home maybe, but yeah, I don't know. It adds this

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element of danger to approaching women late at night on

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the street, which I am one of those people where

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if I'm walking, I will cross the road. I will

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not make you have to walk by me or near me,

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especially if it's in the evening. And I'd never even

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heard the story of the Takunuda before putting this episode together.

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The next source that I have here is this looks

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like it is a thesis by two folks. One of

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them was referenced in the first source that I had here.

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It's by Martinezreeez and Fernanda Maria. And this is an

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oral narrative in Ondudas New explorations at the beginning of

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the twenty first century. So this thing is kind of

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spread out across different places, but if you search that

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you should be able to find it. There's a PDF

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that I found of it, and I have here the

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specific pages that I wanted to reference. Okay, so in

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this thesis, it looks like they collected various anecdotes from

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people about all these different kinds of folklore and stories

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from people in Ondudas. But this one a couple sections

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I wanted to references about Latakunuda. So the one here

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was collected by this woman named Stephanie Ferrufino, who is

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from the Saint Lawrence Valley in Ondudas, and it's just

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her telling basically the same story about the taxi drivers.

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It says that the taxi drivers don't pick women up

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at night because there's a woman called Lauda. She was

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the girlfriend of a bus driver and that the bus

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and the taxi crashed and that he died. This one,

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actually there's a slight difference in it. It says that

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she was also in the bus and that they crashed

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all together and that she died, and so now she,

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you know, haunts the streets. But she was said to

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have law hair, that she was attractive, that she wore

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high heels, and that's why they call her Latakunuda, and

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that in Degusigapa they say that she comes out. In Vianueva,

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that when taxi drivers pick her up they look at

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her or when they like try to collect the fair

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that she's not there, that she doesn't make any noise,

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so they don't hear her getting out of the car.

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She just vanishes if they're distracted and they look back

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at her while they're driving, that she has a knife

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and she she kills them. But the other parts of

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this that I wanted to read, this is like a

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very lengthy document. Yeah, these are just collected from people.

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This is from someone named Cecilia Mehia and she's from

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the Central and she says that she was a very

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tall woman, she was young, she had long hair, just

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describing how she looked, that she had big lips, that

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she was dressed in white, and she wore heels, like

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super high heels. And they say that she is a

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woman that comes out in the middle of the night

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in Degusigapa, that people can hear her takuasos, that they

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can hear her high heels in the streets. Another one

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that says and that she leaves a trace of perfume

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in her trail that it just attracts men. And then

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this next one says it's called the tragedy La tak

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Takula leaves between midnight and three in the morning in

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the pedestrian streets. They say that she was a pretty girl,

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she had long hair, that she went to a party

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in her dress and her heels, that she was on

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her way back home, that a man assaulted her. She

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managed to escape him, she ran away in the streets

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wearing her heels, screaming for someone to help her, but

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that no one came out to help her, and that

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the man caught her and he ended up killing her,

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and that now her spirit remains on those streets. That's

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like the other kind of popular version of this story

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of Latakunulda that I keep seeing is that if it's

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not the taxi driver, it's that she was assaulted and

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ultimately murdered, and that her spirit, you know, of course,

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would remain disgruntled. Again, we bring in this idea that

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we always talk about here of traumatic events and how

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they leave an imprint of energy. Obviously that would do

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it right. This last one on here that was able

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to find in this PDF is from someone named Zelenya

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Eggi Jure from the Tumbla in Fracisco, Morasan, Okay. So

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this says that that she used to live in a

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house I think like off of a sidewalk, and that

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every day at twelve at night that they would hear

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heels in the streets, and that they were that they

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sounded like they were quick steps, like if they were running,

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and that when they went out to see what it was,

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they didn't see anybody there. They see that only men

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can see La Tacunuda, and that also when her steps again,

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when her steps are heard nearby, it's that she's far

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but that if the steps are far away, it's because

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she's approaching you or she's nearby. So the next one

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that I have or the last one that I have. Actually,

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this is a very different version of this story. This

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is actually a story of La Taku Nuda from Cuba.

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This has nothing to do with taxi drivers. It said

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that her spirit roams staircases in haunted or abandoned homes.

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This is something that was written on Medium dot com

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by a user called Chaotic Pair. This is actually posted

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in April of twenty twenty four, so very recently. It

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says echoes of the Night exploring the legend of Latako Nuda.

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And I'm not going to read the entire thing. It's

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not super long, but it says, step into the shadowy

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realms of Cuban folklore where the legend of Latako Nuda

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takes center stage. Described as a ghostly woman clad in

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black with a veiled face and long flowing hair, Latako

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Nuda is said to appear to unsuspecting victims as they

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ascend or descend staircases. The only warning of her presence

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is the faint sound of her high heeled shoes tapping

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against the steps, drawing ever closer with each passing moment.

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As children, you are warned never to look back as

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you climb the stairs, and most important of all, never

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dally as you go down. In some versions, she is

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said to have long nails that can act like claws,

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and some have seen her dressed in all black except

478
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for her red heels. Okay, red bottoms. M So again,

479
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this is another kind of go warning kind of a story.

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It's like, be careful in staircases, don't like look where

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you're walking, don't be looking around. I'll be messing around

482
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on the stairs because if you are, UNA's going to

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get you, which to me would make me want to

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run up or downstairs right, which I don't think that

485
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is the goal, but I would run if I heard that,

486
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or I would run so that I wouldn't encounter her,

487
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I don't know. Another piece of this says, when I

488
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was growing up, my best friend at school came one

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day retelling her encounter with the entity. She said that

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she had sneaked out from home to go to a

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party and had returned to her building in the early

492
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hours of the morning. She was tired and her feet

493
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hurt since she had stolen her older sister's heels that

494
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didn't quite fit. As she started to climb to her

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fourth floor apartment. We do not have many elevators in Cuba,

496
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particularly in the buildings that are less than eight floors,

497
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she all of a sudden could hear heels going up

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the stairs loudly. With her only problem, the sound was

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completely different from her heels. She said. She started to

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worry when she heard a female voice start to hum.

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As a wave of fear rushed through her and she

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ready to sprint up the stairs, she heard a very

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calm but completely inhuman voice say, do not run. With

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her her heart in her throat, she did her best

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to quickly but safely get to her floor. She swears

506
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that as she slowly slipped into her home, she heard

507
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those high heels begin the descent back down the building

508
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and a haunting hum softly filled the space. Again. See again,

509
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that would have just made me run if I hear

510
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disembodied heels behind me, and then as I'm getting ready

511
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to run, they say, don't run. Guess what I'm doing.

512
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I'm a runner, I'm a track star. I am not.

513
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I'm not gonna listen to whatever that is. I am

514
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going to get out of there. So this says that

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I want to read the origin part of this. It

516
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says while the origins le Takunula remain shrouded in mystery.

517
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Some believe her legend is rooted in tales of lost love, betrayal,

518
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or tragic accidents that occurred on staircases. Others suggest she

519
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is the vengeful spirit of a woman wronged, condemned to

520
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roam the earth in search of justice personally growing up,

521
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every version I ever heard mentioned she had an accident

522
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.599
of some sort down some stairs and now haunted steep

523
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or dangerous stairs. This is really cool. I'm actually want

524
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to reach out to this person because they're actively posting

525
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and this is really cool, and I would love to

526
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hear more about Cuban folklore. So Chaotic pair, if you

527
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.839
actually are listening, you feel free to reach out to me,

528
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but I'm going to reach out to you. So yeah,

529
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it was really really cool to come across this one.

530
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It's again a completely different culture, but it's this idea

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of a woman's spirit wearing high heels. And let me

532
00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:26.160
tell you something, this is the slayest. This is the

533
00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:29.920
most slay she is serving giving. She's very demure. You

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00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:32.559
see how she walks down the stairs slowly. She's demure.

535
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She's not like these other ghouls. She takes her time

536
00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:37.519
on the steps. She's very cute. See. I don't know

537
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.240
if you've all seen that trend on TikTok, but I'm

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obsessed with it right now. But yeah, again, just really

539
00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:43.680
fun to make these connections to different cultures. I think

540
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this was the only other one that popped up in

541
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the first page of Google results about a high healed

542
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spirit about Lata Gunuda. So if you have your own

543
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.200
story about Lata Gunuda, obviously, always, always, always, feel free

544
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to send in your versions. Welcome back, girlfriends. Honestly, this

545
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story just inspired me to make a bunch of tiktoks

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wearing my heels. I have a collection of heels. I

547
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don't know if anybody listening. I don't know if you

548
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.880
all know this. I don't know if you know this,

549
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you listener, But I have a collection of heels that

550
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I like to wear heels sometimes when I go out.

551
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When I say I'm gholie pop, I mean it. And

552
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I don't get a chance to wear them often anymore.

553
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You know, I'm in my thirties. My feet hurt very

554
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.960
easily now. But I will say, I do marry the heels.

555
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I do not take them off again. I'm demurror. I'm

556
00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:44.759
not like these other ghouls. I don't take my heels

557
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.839
off and walk in the streets in the club with

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00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:49.960
my shoes off. I commit to it, and then I

559
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.359
don't feel my toes for a week. But I can

560
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just imagine the funny tiktoks I can make about latakun

561
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muda and walking to my heels, especially with that sound

562
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.759
that's like let it and then the heels, the clickings

563
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.480
of the I don't know anyway, I'm I feel like

564
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:13.759
I am. My mind is slowly unraveling. The wrinkles in

565
00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:16.119
my brain are smoothing out. I don't know what's happening,

566
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but you know it. But you're here with me, and

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I appreciate you and I'm so grateful. Thank you for

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