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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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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