Cinco historias de miedo que no te dejarán dormir | RELATOS DE TERROR
Nox - Historias de Terror
[{'start': '0.240', 'end': '5.480', 'text': 'My dear audience, before I begin,\nI want to ask you something very simple:'}, {'start': '5.480', 'end': '10.280', 'text': 'make yourselves comfortable... and tell me\nwhere you are listening to me from and what time it is'}, {'start': '10.280', 'end': '18.040', 'text': "there.  It's always fascinating to know that these\nstories travel to so many corners of the world."}, {'start': '18.040', 'end': '25.760', 'text': 'If you have headphones handy, feel free to\nuse them.  I recommend listening to this podcast like this:'}, {'start': '25.760', 'end': '32.280', 'text': 'in privacy, with all your senses focused.\nAnd if you enjoy these types of stories,'}, {'start': '32.280', 'end': '37.560', 'text': "don't forget to subscribe to the channel.  There are\nmany more stories waiting for you."}, {'start': '37.560', 'end': '43.800', 'text': "So get ready.  Let's go through\nfive stories together that might put you off ever"}, {'start': '43.800', 'end': '50.160', 'text': 'setting\nfoot in a hospital again... at least at night.'}, {'start': '50.160', 'end': '56.920', 'text': "Well... make yourselves comfortable... and\nlet's start with the first story."}, {'start': '66.320', 'end': '72.760', 'text': 'My name is Javier.  For five years I worked\nas a forensic assistant at the central morgue'}, {'start': '72.760', 'end': '79.160', 'text': 'in the capital.  I almost always had\nthe night shifts.  Not because of their vocation,'}, {'start': '79.160', 'end': '86.440', 'text': 'but because they were the ones no one else wanted.  The\nsilence was denser, the shadows longer,'}, {'start': '86.440', 'end': '93.040', 'text': "and the noises... different.  But at\nfirst, I wasn't afraid.  I thought they"}, {'start': '93.040', 'end': '100.160', 'text': 'were hallway stories.  Legends told\nby old employees to scare new ones.'}, {'start': '100.160', 'end': '107.360', 'text': 'That changed one July morning.  There was a\nthunderstorm.  The rain beat'}, {'start': '107.360', 'end': '112.640', 'text': 'hard against the skylight in the main hallway.\xa0  It was\nmy job to do the monthly inventory:'}, {'start': '112.640', 'end': '117.920', 'text': 'review the cold rooms one by one\n, check the records,'}, {'start': '117.920', 'end': '126.040', 'text': 'confirm that everything matched.  It was a\nmechanical, routine job, but that night, something went wrong.  I'}, {'start': '126.040', 'end': '132.680', 'text': 'started in the north wing.  I had the\ntable with the printed records and a'}, {'start': '132.680', 'end': '139.480', 'text': "spare flashlight with me in case the power failed.  He would open a\ndrawer, check the body's metal plate,"}, {'start': '139.480', 'end': '147.480', 'text': 'the cause of death, and make a note.  Everything was going\nwell until I got to drawer number 19.'}, {'start': '147.480', 'end': '154.560', 'text': "When I opened it, it was empty.  That\ndidn't make sense.  According to the record,"}, {'start': '154.560', 'end': '159.760', 'text': 'there should have been a man who had\ndied just a few hours earlier in a'}, {'start': '159.760', 'end': '166.760', 'text': 'motorcycle accident.  A recent move.\nI thought they had taken him for an autopsy,'}, {'start': '166.760', 'end': '173.160', 'text': 'but when I checked the log, there was\nno movement.  Nobody had touched it.'}, {'start': '173.160', 'end': '175.360', 'text': 'I felt a tingling on the back of my neck,'}, {'start': '175.360', 'end': '181.960', 'text': 'but I forced myself to remain calm.  I closed\nthe drawer and continued checking the others.'}, {'start': '182.560', 'end': '192.320', 'text': "As I reached number 11, something stopped me.  It wasn't\na sound.  It was... a presence.  A"}, {'start': '192.320', 'end': '201.440', 'text': "sudden feeling that I wasn't alone.  I opened the\ndrawer, and there he was: the motorcyclist."}, {'start': '201.440', 'end': '209.800', 'text': 'But there was something wrong.  Very badly.  The face did not\nmatch the photo in the report.  Same'}, {'start': '209.800', 'end': '216.960', 'text': 'body, same scars, but his face\nlooked like that of a much older man.  As if I'}, {'start': '216.960', 'end': '223.760', 'text': 'had aged decades in a matter of hours.\nThe skin was hanging loose, the eyes were open and'}, {'start': '223.760', 'end': '230.840', 'text': "glassy, \u200b\u200band his mouth had a slight\ncrooked smile that wasn't there when we got him.  I"}, {'start': '231.360', 'end': '236.160', 'text': 'took a step back, and tripped over\nan empty stretcher.  The impact caused'}, {'start': '236.160', 'end': '242.200', 'text': 'the tools to fall to the ground.  The\nmetallic sound echoed in the chamber like'}, {'start': '242.200', 'end': '248.920', 'text': 'a hollow bell.  I froze for\na few seconds.  Then I ran out into the'}, {'start': '248.920', 'end': '256.640', 'text': 'hallway.  The supervisor was not there.  The lights were\nflickering.  I tried to calm down, to rationalize'}, {'start': '256.640', 'end': '263.040', 'text': 'what I had seen.  I returned minutes later with\nanother technician, but the body was no longer there.'}, {'start': '263.040', 'end': '271.160', 'text': 'Not in chamber 11, nor in any other.  We reviewed them\nall.  Thrice.  But there was no trace.'}, {'start': '271.160', 'end': '277.560', 'text': 'Drawer 19, which I initially\nfound empty, now appeared closed,'}, {'start': '277.560', 'end': '283.680', 'text': 'with its plate in order.  But when we\nopened it, there was only a folded sheet.'}, {'start': '283.680', 'end': '290.480', 'text': "Nothing else.  The report disappeared from the\narchives.  The motorcyclist's entry was never"}, {'start': '290.480', 'end': '297.560', 'text': 'officially recorded.  As if it\nhad all been... a mistake in my memory.'}, {'start': '297.560', 'end': '299.440', 'text': 'But I know what I saw.'}, {'start': '299.440', 'end': '306.400', 'text': 'After that night, I asked for a shift change.\nThey moved me to the afternoon schedule.  I never went'}, {'start': '306.400', 'end': '311.920', 'text': 'into the cold storage alone again.\nAnd every time I see a motorcycle on the street,'}, {'start': '311.920', 'end': '318.560', 'text': 'something inside me stirs.  There are things that\nthe living should not see.  And bodies that,'}, {'start': '318.560', 'end': '321.480', 'text': 'perhaps, never wanted to be there.'}, {'start': '321.480', 'end': '328.360', 'text': 'I thought that was all.  But a few weeks\nlater, while organizing some files'}, {'start': '328.360', 'end': '334.040', 'text': 'in the documentation area, I received\nan envelope with no return address.  Inside, there'}, {'start': '334.040', 'end': '340.200', 'text': 'was only a photograph.  The face of the\nman in the accident, as it appeared'}, {'start': '340.200', 'end': '348.160', 'text': 'on camera.  But on the back, in pencil, someone\nhad written: "19 does not open. Never again."'}, {'start': '348.800', 'end': '355.720', 'text': 'I informed the shift manager.  He thought it was a\npractical joke.  We checked the security cameras:'}, {'start': '355.720', 'end': '361.320', 'text': 'that night, no one had entered the\ndocument room.  And the strangest thing:'}, {'start': '361.320', 'end': '366.840', 'text': 'the envelope did not appear in the video.  I was just\nseen opening the drawer... and'}, {'start': '366.840', 'end': '370.400', 'text': "reacting to seeing something the camera didn't capture."}, {'start': '370.400', 'end': '377.040', 'text': "That night, I couldn't sleep.  The next day, I noticed\nthat someone had left a note on my locker"}, {'start': '377.040', 'end': '385.680', 'text': 'written in red marker: "He\'s not dead."\xa0  He\ndidn\'t say anything else.  I didn\'t tell anyone about it.'}, {'start': '385.680', 'end': '390.520', 'text': "I kept the note and the photo in a\nshoe box that I still have, although I don't know"}, {'start': '390.520', 'end': '396.480', 'text': 'why I still have it.  Maybe because part of me\nneeds to know if anyone else has seen it.'}, {'start': '396.480', 'end': '402.440', 'text': 'Months passed.  It seemed like everything was\nbehind us, until a new inmate'}, {'start': '402.440', 'end': '409.720', 'text': 'asked for access to the old files.  It was my turn to\nguide him.  While we were browsing the shelves, he'}, {'start': '409.720', 'end': '414.800', 'text': 'found a folder marked\n"Unsolved Case – 11B."'}, {'start': '415.560', 'end': '421.080', 'text': 'When I opened it, I froze: it was\nthe same man.  Another admission,'}, {'start': '421.080', 'end': '429.080', 'text': 'same aged face, same scars... but\nwith a death date fifteen years earlier.'}, {'start': '429.600', 'end': '434.880', 'text': 'I looked through the whole file: there was no\nway it was the same body,'}, {'start': '434.880', 'end': '442.720', 'text': 'but everything matched.  Even the location of the\naccident: same intersection, same time,'}, {'start': '442.720', 'end': '450.960', 'text': 'same type of motorcycle.  That folder was classified\nas "closed due to misidentification."'}, {'start': '450.960', 'end': '457.040', 'text': 'Since then, I began to suspect that this\nbody was not simply a corpse.  It was'}, {'start': '457.040', 'end': '463.200', 'text': "something more.  Something that shouldn't be here.\nSomething that appeared... whenever it wanted."}, {'start': '463.200', 'end': '470.040', 'text': 'A couple of nights before I left the job\nfor good, I stayed behind for just a few more minutes,'}, {'start': '470.040', 'end': '477.840', 'text': "reviewing some data that the new manager\nhadn't filed properly.  It was late.  Everyone had"}, {'start': '477.840', 'end': '486.040', 'text': 'left.  And I heard it.  From the end of the corridor,\na dull sound, as if a metal drawer were being'}, {'start': '486.040', 'end': '493.840', 'text': 'slowly moved.  I stood up, my\nheart in my throat, and walked toward the camera.'}, {'start': '493.840', 'end': '496.840', 'text': 'Drawer 19 was open.'}, {'start': '496.840', 'end': '504.160', 'text': 'Inside, a folded sheet.  And above it, the\nphotograph that I myself had kept at home,'}, {'start': '504.160', 'end': '508.800', 'text': 'with an added phrase: "You forgot, Javier."  I'}, {'start': '508.800', 'end': '516.320', 'text': 'resigned that same week.  Today I teach\ncriminology classes.  Sometimes, a student'}, {'start': '516.320', 'end': '522.920', 'text': 'asks me why I never wanted to continue in the\nforensic field.  I always give them the same answer:'}, {'start': '523.520', 'end': '532.520', 'text': '—Because there are dead people who never really leave.'}, {'start': '532.520', 'end': '539.360', 'text': '...'}, {'start': '539.360', 'end': '545.680', 'text': 'My name is Raúl, and I was working as a\nconservation technician in a medical university morgue'}, {'start': '545.680', 'end': '553.240', 'text': 'for seven years.  It was not an\nordinary morgue: the bodies that arrived there were not going'}, {'start': '553.240', 'end': '560.200', 'text': 'to be buried, but to be prepared with formalin\nand substances that preserved them for months,'}, {'start': '560.200', 'end': '567.280', 'text': 'sometimes years, so that students could\nstudy anatomy with them.  I was in charge'}, {'start': '567.280', 'end': '572.920', 'text': 'of doing the arterial injections,\ndrainage, and ensuring that the body'}, {'start': '572.920', 'end': '579.520', 'text': 'was fully treated before being\nsent for prolonged refrigeration or dissection.  It'}, {'start': '579.520', 'end': '587.320', 'text': 'was a technical, solitary job, and\nseemingly without room for the strange.  But'}, {'start': '587.320', 'end': '593.880', 'text': 'that changed one November morning when I had to\nreceive a body outside of normal hours.\xa0\xa0  He'}, {'start': '594.520', 'end': '601.720', 'text': 'had arrived due to a logistical error: a man\nin his 60s, without clear identification,'}, {'start': '601.720', 'end': '606.880', 'text': 'who had supposedly been a\nvoluntary donor.  Since there were no students'}, {'start': '606.880', 'end': '613.800', 'text': 'present and the official reception was the\nnext day, I decided to move the procedure forward.'}, {'start': '613.800', 'end': '619.520', 'text': 'I took him to the preparation room.\nI checked the body for marks or tattoos,'}, {'start': '619.520', 'end': '625.520', 'text': 'as is always indicated, and\na long scar from the'}, {'start': '625.520', 'end': '633.120', 'text': "sternum to the abdomen caught my attention.  It wasn't stitched up,\njust closed as if it had healed years ago,"}, {'start': '633.120', 'end': '640.400', 'text': 'but according to the report, the man had died\nof respiratory arrest just two days earlier.'}, {'start': '640.400', 'end': '645.360', 'text': 'I thought it would be a mistake in the\ndocuments.  I connected the'}, {'start': '645.360', 'end': '650.760', 'text': 'injection system and started pumping the\nfluid.  Everything seemed normal until'}, {'start': '650.760', 'end': '656.960', 'text': 'I noticed that the formaldehyde was not flowing as it should.\nThe body literally rejected it:'}, {'start': '656.960', 'end': '663.840', 'text': 'every vein he injected collapsed and the fluid\nflowed back as if something was pushing it back.'}, {'start': '664.400', 'end': '672.400', 'text': 'I checked the connections, changed needles,\ntried other arteries, but nothing worked.'}, {'start': '672.400', 'end': '680.360', 'text': 'I let it sit for a moment to catch my breath.\nWhen I came back, I noticed something much worse:'}, {'start': '680.360', 'end': '685.680', 'text': 'the body had a different expression.\nBefore, my mouth was closed and my'}, {'start': '685.680', 'end': '692.920', 'text': 'eyelids relaxed.  Now, the jaw was\nslightly open and the eyes half-closed.\xa0\xa0  It'}, {'start': '693.440', 'end': '699.800', 'text': "wasn't something that happened through\npost-mortem spasms.  There was a tension in his face,"}, {'start': '699.800', 'end': '703.520', 'text': 'as if he were holding his breath.'}, {'start': '703.520', 'end': '708.240', 'text': "I decided to stop.  I called my\nsuperior, but he didn't answer."}, {'start': '708.840', 'end': '714.280', 'text': 'I wanted to move the body to\nmanual cooling, but when I tried to lift it,'}, {'start': '714.280', 'end': '721.480', 'text': 'I noticed that it was heavier than normal.  As if\nsomething inside was... resisting.\xa0\xa0  I'}, {'start': '721.480', 'end': '728.040', 'text': 'made one last attempt to inject through the\ncarotid.  The moment the needle entered,'}, {'start': '728.040', 'end': '734.960', 'text': 'I heard a snap inside my chest, dry,\nsharp, as if a rib had been broken.'}, {'start': '734.960', 'end': '743.000', 'text': 'And then, the body exhaled.  A long,\nwet sigh.  I was alone, there was no way that'}, {'start': '743.000', 'end': '748.880', 'text': 'was a chemical effect.  I backed away\nin such panic that I tripped over the'}, {'start': '748.880', 'end': '755.560', 'text': 'instrument tray and cut my palm on\na pair of scissors.  Blood dripped onto the floor.'}, {'start': '755.560', 'end': '761.800', 'text': "That's when I first\nheard it.  It wasn't an external sound.\xa0\xa0  It"}, {'start': '761.800', 'end': '767.040', 'text': 'was inside my head, like an\necho without origin.  Three words,'}, {'start': '767.040', 'end': '773.080', 'text': 'repeated as if someone were saying them from\ninside the body: "don\'t touch me."  I'}, {'start': '773.080', 'end': '782.000', 'text': "left the room.  I left everything uncleaned.  That night I did\nn't sleep.  When I returned the next day, the body was"}, {'start': '782.000', 'end': '788.200', 'text': 'gone.  Nobody knew what he was talking about.\xa0  There\nwere no records of that entry, and on the'}, {'start': '788.200', 'end': '794.840', 'text': 'security cameras, the hours were black\nfrom when I received it until I ran away.'}, {'start': '794.840', 'end': '803.560', 'text': "They told me I must have suffered a stress episode.  That's\nwhat happens.  That if I wanted, I could take a few days.  I"}, {'start': '803.560', 'end': '807.280', 'text': "never came back.  But it didn't end there."}, {'start': '807.280', 'end': '814.280', 'text': 'Days later, from home, I wanted to erase\neverything that had happened from my head.  But as he'}, {'start': '814.280', 'end': '818.960', 'text': 'was reviewing a technical manual he had\naccidentally brought from the lab,'}, {'start': '818.960', 'end': '825.400', 'text': 'a sheet of paper fell to the floor.  It was an\nadmission form.  Illegible name, crossed-out date of death'}, {'start': '825.400', 'end': '833.360', 'text': '... and a handwritten note in the\nmargin: "Do not apply substances. Do not open."'}, {'start': '833.360', 'end': '839.440', 'text': "My heart raced.  I checked the\nregistration number and it didn't match any in"}, {'start': '839.440', 'end': '846.400', 'text': "the official system.  But the next day, I\ncouldn't resist.  I called a former colleague"}, {'start': '846.400', 'end': '853.080', 'text': 'and asked him to check if there\nwere any entries in the internal database with those details.'}, {'start': '853.080', 'end': '859.920', 'text': 'At first he refused.  Then he called me back\nat two in the morning.  I had found something.'}, {'start': '859.920', 'end': '867.840', 'text': 'The same name, or something similar, appeared\nin a closed file from 1993.'}, {'start': '867.840', 'end': '874.920', 'text': 'Special case.  Body donated by a private institution,\nrestricted handling, no authorization for'}, {'start': '874.920', 'end': '881.840', 'text': 'study.  The strangest thing was the\nfinal comment: "Returned after irregularities."'}, {'start': '881.840', 'end': '884.120', 'text': 'How do you return a body?'}, {'start': '884.120', 'end': '890.720', 'text': 'For weeks, every time I passed by\nhospitals or universities, I smelled that same'}, {'start': '890.720', 'end': '898.680', 'text': "penetrating smell of formaldehyde.  Even if it wasn't\nin use.  Even if no one else could smell it.  A smell that"}, {'start': '898.680', 'end': '904.880', 'text': 'stayed in my nose, as if\nthat body had left its mark on me from the inside.'}, {'start': '904.880', 'end': '909.640', 'text': 'One night I dreamed that I was back in\nthe preparation room.  But this time he'}, {'start': '909.640', 'end': '918.600', 'text': "wasn't alone.  He was sitting there,\njaw hanging, eyes open, and his voice,"}, {'start': '918.600', 'end': '926.480', 'text': 'that same inner voice, repeating, "Don\'t\ntouch me. Don\'t touch me. Don\'t touch me."'}, {'start': '926.480', 'end': '934.280', 'text': 'I woke up with the palm of my hand covered in blood.  The\nwound from the scissor cut had reopened.'}, {'start': '934.280', 'end': '940.360', 'text': 'Not because of a bad move.  It was as if something\nfrom within had opened her up again.'}, {'start': '940.360', 'end': '948.640', 'text': 'I went to the emergency room.  The doctor asked me how I\ngot that wound.  I lied to him.  He looked at me for a'}, {'start': '948.640', 'end': '957.520', 'text': "second too long, as if he didn't believe my story.\nOn my way out, I passed by the hospital morgue."}, {'start': '957.520', 'end': '964.200', 'text': 'A stretcher bearer came out just at that moment.  He was carrying\na body covered with a white sheet.  In the'}, {'start': '964.200', 'end': '971.760', 'text': 'bottom corner of the sheet, written in\nblack marker, was a word: "Raúl."  I'}, {'start': '971.760', 'end': '978.640', 'text': 'never went near a morgue again.  Not even\nto an operating room.  Not even to a classroom.\xa0\xa0  I'}, {'start': '978.640', 'end': '986.680', 'text': 'changed cities.  I changed my name.  But sometimes,\nwhen I fall into a deep sleep, the smell comes back.'}, {'start': '987.240', 'end': '995.600', 'text': 'The weight on the chest too.  And then, I\nhear it.  Not in the head.  Not as I remember.'}, {'start': '995.600', 'end': '1002.640', 'text': 'But from the next room.\nThat same phrase, barely a whisper:'}, {'start': '1002.640', 'end': '1009.700', 'text': '"Don\'t touch me..."'}, {'start': '1009.700', 'end': '1016.280', 'text': '...'}, {'start': '1016.280', 'end': '1022.880', 'text': 'My name is Tomás.  I was a medical corporal at\na military base located in the south of the country,'}, {'start': '1022.880', 'end': '1028.800', 'text': 'an area where the winters were so cruel\nthat the windows were cracked by ice in the morning'}, {'start': '1028.800', 'end': '1035.160', 'text': '.  I was assigned as a technical assistant\nin the morgue of the military hospital on the'}, {'start': '1035.160', 'end': '1042.200', 'text': 'base.  It was not a very busy place:\nonly soldiers killed in service,'}, {'start': '1042.200', 'end': '1048.480', 'text': 'victims of training accidents, or in\nvery exceptional cases, civilians involved'}, {'start': '1048.480', 'end': '1056.080', 'text': 'in operations arrived there.  It seemed like a quiet task.\nUntil I discovered the room without a number.'}, {'start': '1056.080', 'end': '1063.240', 'text': 'The morgue had three normal cold storage chambers\nand a smaller one, hidden behind a'}, {'start': '1063.240', 'end': '1070.320', 'text': 'rusty grate.  That camera did not appear in any plan.\nAt first glance, it looked like a storage room, but when'}, {'start': '1070.320', 'end': '1077.680', 'text': "I tried to open it once out of curiosity, I noticed that\nthe door was much heavier than the others.  It didn't"}, {'start': '1077.680', 'end': '1085.840', 'text': 'have a handle on the outside.  Just an old lock, one\nof those that open with a master key.'}, {'start': '1085.840', 'end': '1091.080', 'text': 'My supervisor, Sergeant Téllez,\nwarned me the first week:'}, {'start': '1091.080', 'end': '1098.960', 'text': '“That room doesn’t exist, soldier. If anyone\nasks you, you don’t know anything. You come in,'}, {'start': '1098.960', 'end': '1104.320', 'text': 'check the day’s intake, clean\nwhat needs to be cleaned, and leave.”'}, {'start': '1104.320', 'end': '1110.280', 'text': 'I thought it was an exaggeration.  But I noticed\nthat when we were doing general cleaning,'}, {'start': '1110.280', 'end': '1116.080', 'text': 'nobody came near that door.  Even\nthe cleaning staff walked'}, {'start': '1116.080', 'end': '1122.200', 'text': 'past.  There seemed to be a\ntacit agreement: there was no talk of that place.'}, {'start': '1122.200', 'end': '1128.320', 'text': 'One day in October, we received three bodies at the\nsame time.  They had died in an accident'}, {'start': '1128.320', 'end': '1133.360', 'text': 'during a transport maneuver in the\nmountains.  The report said the truck'}, {'start': '1133.360', 'end': '1138.840', 'text': 'had gone off the road and fallen down\na slope of more than 30 meters.\xa0\xa0  They'}, {'start': '1139.400', 'end': '1146.960', 'text': 'all died instantly.  It was my job to prepare\nthe bodies for transport to their places of origin.'}, {'start': '1146.960', 'end': '1152.960', 'text': 'The first one had multiple fractures but\nhis face retained a certain serenity.  The'}, {'start': '1152.960', 'end': '1160.360', 'text': 'second one was unrecognizable, we embalmed it\nwithout removing the bandage from the skull.  The third one…'}, {'start': '1160.360', 'end': '1166.960', 'text': "was different.  There wasn't even a\nvisible scratch on it.  Just a stiff,"}, {'start': '1166.960', 'end': '1173.760', 'text': "unnatural expression, as if he'd been caught in\nthe middle of a scream.  The jaw was locked,"}, {'start': '1173.760', 'end': '1180.160', 'text': 'the fingers clenched.  It was as if something\nhad stopped him in his tracks from within.'}, {'start': '1180.160', 'end': '1187.840', 'text': 'The forensic report said “cardiac arrest.”  But\nat first glance, there was no sign of a heart attack.  No'}, {'start': '1187.840', 'end': '1194.840', 'text': 'congestion, no internal bleeding.  Nothing.  I\nleft it for last.  But that same afternoon,'}, {'start': '1194.840', 'end': '1201.040', 'text': 'as I was finishing the search, I saw two\nsoldiers dressed in black, without insignia,'}, {'start': '1201.040', 'end': '1205.480', 'text': "enter the morgue.  They didn't say hello.  They didn't speak."}, {'start': '1205.480', 'end': '1211.760', 'text': 'They went straight to body number three and\nplaced it on a special stretcher.'}, {'start': '1211.760', 'end': '1217.880', 'text': 'Téllez approached me from behind.\xa0  It\nstartled me.  He said to me in a low voice,'}, {'start': '1217.880', 'end': '1221.760', 'text': '“It’s no longer your responsibility. Don’t\nmention it again.”'}, {'start': '1221.760', 'end': '1224.280', 'text': 'They took him to the room with no number.  I did'}, {'start': '1224.280', 'end': '1231.440', 'text': "n't sleep well that night.  I had a nightmare:\nI was in the morgue, alone, and I heard a"}, {'start': '1231.440', 'end': '1239.200', 'text': 'low humming noise coming from that door.  The sound\ngrew louder until it became unbearable,'}, {'start': '1239.200', 'end': '1247.720', 'text': 'and then… silence.  I opened the door, and what\nwas inside was not a body.  It was me.'}, {'start': '1247.720', 'end': '1254.000', 'text': 'I woke up drenched in sweat.  When I arrived at\nthe base the next day, the body was'}, {'start': '1254.000', 'end': '1263.400', 'text': 'nowhere to be seen.  It was as if I had never\narrived.  No transfer, no autopsy.  Nothing.'}, {'start': '1263.400', 'end': '1267.240', 'text': 'I tried to forget it.  I continued with my routine.'}, {'start': '1267.240', 'end': '1273.400', 'text': 'But weeks later, during an inspection,\na nurse found a note inside one'}, {'start': '1273.400', 'end': '1279.520', 'text': "of the morgue's empty lockers.\xa0  It\nwas a sheet of notebook paper, crumpled,"}, {'start': '1279.520', 'end': '1288.040', 'text': 'with crooked letters as if written by a\ntrembling hand: “Don’t open the door. He’s not dead.”'}, {'start': '1288.040', 'end': '1294.640', 'text': 'The note mysteriously disappeared from the\nbriefing room before I could deliver it.'}, {'start': '1294.640', 'end': '1301.400', 'text': 'Téllez summoned me to his office.  He asked me if I\nhad said anything about the body to anyone.\xa0\xa0  I'}, {'start': '1301.400', 'end': '1307.960', 'text': 'told him no.  He looked at me for several\nseconds, as if trying to read something on'}, {'start': '1307.960', 'end': '1316.440', 'text': 'my face.  Finally he said, “If you want to stay\nalive, pretend you never existed.”'}, {'start': '1316.440', 'end': '1325.320', 'text': 'Days later, something else happened.  The\npower went out during the early morning.  I was alone,'}, {'start': '1325.320', 'end': '1331.360', 'text': 'reviewing an inventory.  The morgue had its\nown generator, but for some reason, it did'}, {'start': '1331.360', 'end': '1340.240', 'text': "n't turn on this time.  The darkness was total,\nbut it was not cold.  Something was wrong: it was hot."}, {'start': '1340.240', 'end': '1347.040', 'text': 'And then I heard it.  Three dull knocks.\nThey came from the room without a number.  At'}, {'start': '1347.040', 'end': '1354.000', 'text': 'first I thought it was my imagination.\nThen, four more hits.  And a voice,'}, {'start': '1354.000', 'end': '1359.000', 'text': 'barely audible, as if the door\nwere muffling the words:'}, {'start': '1359.000', 'end': '1360.080', 'text': '—Tomás…'}, {'start': '1360.080', 'end': '1366.040', 'text': "The chill I felt wasn't just physical.\nI felt like my brain wanted to deny what my"}, {'start': '1366.040', 'end': '1374.200', 'text': 'ears were hearing.  I approached, not knowing why.  And just\nas I placed my hand on the iron frame,'}, {'start': '1374.200', 'end': '1381.280', 'text': 'I felt a slight vibration, as if something on the\nother side was breathing.  I took a step back.  Another'}, {'start': '1381.280', 'end': '1388.400', 'text': 'one.  And then the door made a\nslight click, as if something inside had moved.  I'}, {'start': '1388.400', 'end': '1389.880', 'text': 'ran away.'}, {'start': '1389.880', 'end': '1394.760', 'text': 'For weeks, nothing else happened.\nBut fear had settled'}, {'start': '1394.760', 'end': '1400.680', 'text': "under my skin.  I started dreaming about\nthat voice every night.  He didn't say anything"}, {'start': '1400.680', 'end': '1409.160', 'text': 'coherent.  Just my name.  And something\nelse, like a request: “take me out.”'}, {'start': '1409.160', 'end': '1414.040', 'text': 'One December afternoon, as we were\ncleaning the east wing of the morgue,'}, {'start': '1414.040', 'end': '1420.880', 'text': 'a new orderly—recently transferred\nfrom another base—asked me, “Is it true'}, {'start': '1420.880', 'end': '1427.040', 'text': 'there’s a room in the back where they keep\nbodies that aren’t claimed?”  I froze.'}, {'start': '1427.040', 'end': '1431.880', 'text': 'I asked him where he got\nthat from.  He told me he heard it on the'}, {'start': '1431.880', 'end': '1437.600', 'text': 'tactical radio while he was on surveillance.\nSomeone, in a distorted voice,'}, {'start': '1437.600', 'end': '1445.080', 'text': 'had spoken for less than a minute: "Room\nno number. Body conscious. Keep locked."'}, {'start': '1445.080', 'end': '1452.080', 'text': 'Sergeant Téllez was transferred to another\ngarrison weeks later.  No one replaced him.\xa0\xa0  They'}, {'start': '1452.080', 'end': '1460.320', 'text': 'offered me early release.  I accepted it\nwithout asking.  Today I live far away, in a city where'}, {'start': '1460.320', 'end': '1467.360', 'text': 'there are no military bases, no morgues, no gates\nwithout numbers.  But sometimes, in the early morning,'}, {'start': '1467.360', 'end': '1474.760', 'text': 'when the silence resembles that of that\ncold storage room, I wake up with a start.'}, {'start': '1474.760', 'end': '1485.540', 'text': 'And I swear I can still hear those three\nknocks, like a persistent echo.'}, {'start': '1485.540', 'end': '1491.840', 'text': '...'}, {'start': '1491.840', 'end': '1498.000', 'text': 'My name is Esteban.  For three years I was in\ncharge of the morgue in a small town'}, {'start': '1498.000', 'end': '1505.840', 'text': "located between hills and endless fields.  In\nfact, it wasn't a morgue as such.  It was an"}, {'start': '1505.840', 'end': '1512.880', 'text': 'annex room to the rural hospital, with a single\ncold storage room, an old stretcher, and a'}, {'start': '1512.880', 'end': '1519.000', 'text': 'hanging light that buzzed every time it was turned on.\nBodies that no one could watch over immediately arrived at that place'}, {'start': '1519.000', 'end': '1527.200', 'text': '.  People without family, victims\nof accidents, suicides or deaths in solitude.  There'}, {'start': '1527.200', 'end': '1533.360', 'text': 'was no large staff.  Only Dr.\nMolina, who attended to everything in the hospital,'}, {'start': '1533.360', 'end': '1541.280', 'text': 'and I, who acted as orderly, gravedigger, and\noccasionally, autopsy assistant.  Most of'}, {'start': '1541.280', 'end': '1548.640', 'text': "the time we were alone.  And most of the\nbodies didn't stay long.  Except one."}, {'start': '1548.640', 'end': '1554.320', 'text': 'A man arrived one June morning,\nbrought in by the local police.  They had'}, {'start': '1554.320', 'end': '1560.200', 'text': 'found him lying in the woods, covered in\nearth as if someone had tried to'}, {'start': '1560.200', 'end': '1566.640', 'text': 'bury him, but without any sign of\nviolence.  He had no identification.\xa0\xa0  His'}, {'start': '1566.640', 'end': '1573.440', 'text': 'skin was ashen and under his nails,\ncompacted remains of red earth.  He had no injuries'}, {'start': '1573.440', 'end': '1582.120', 'text': 'or visible signs of cause of death.  We\nwrite it down as NN and leave it in refrigeration.'}, {'start': '1582.120', 'end': '1587.680', 'text': 'We thought they would come looking for him the next day\n.  But nobody came.  Not even in a'}, {'start': '1587.680', 'end': '1594.960', 'text': 'week.  Not even in two.  Nobody asked for\nhim.  No one reported a disappearance.'}, {'start': '1594.960', 'end': '1603.520', 'text': "And the strangest thing: it didn't start to decompose.\nHis skin remained the same.  No trace of moisture,"}, {'start': '1603.520', 'end': '1608.520', 'text': 'no swelling.  As if death\nhad frozen him in time.'}, {'start': '1608.520', 'end': '1615.440', 'text': 'The camera where we kept it started to fail.\nA metallic tapping could be heard every morning,'}, {'start': '1615.440', 'end': '1621.920', 'text': 'as if the internal motor was being forced.  We called\nthe technician from the neighboring town.  When he arrived, he'}, {'start': '1621.920', 'end': '1628.240', 'text': 'checked it outside and said everything was fine.\nBut when he opened the door to see inside, he'}, {'start': '1628.240', 'end': '1632.560', 'text': 'fell silent.  He closed\nthe door without saying a word'}, {'start': '1632.560', 'end': '1638.640', 'text': "and charged us without checking anything else.  He didn't\nanswer our calls again."}, {'start': '1638.640', 'end': '1646.080', 'text': 'I started having strange dreams.  Not\nviolent nightmares, but confusing ones.  There was always a'}, {'start': '1646.080', 'end': '1652.120', 'text': 'hill covered with wet earth.  I dug with my\nhands and pulled out the body of that man,'}, {'start': '1652.120', 'end': '1658.080', 'text': 'but he was alive.  He stared at me,\nwithout blinking, and said something to me in a'}, {'start': '1658.080', 'end': '1666.680', 'text': "language I didn't understand.  I woke up soaked,\nalways at the same time: 3:17 in the morning."}, {'start': '1666.680', 'end': '1674.440', 'text': 'One night, during a severe storm,\nthe power went out throughout the hospital.  We turned on'}, {'start': '1674.440', 'end': '1682.040', 'text': 'the generators, but the line feeding\nthe morgue was unresponsive.  I went down with a flashlight to'}, {'start': '1682.040', 'end': '1691.080', 'text': 'check.  As soon as I opened the door, the smell hit me\nlike a wall.  It was not the smell of decay.  It was'}, {'start': '1691.080', 'end': '1697.920', 'text': 'land.  Wet, recent soil.  The same\nsmell that remains after digging a grave.'}, {'start': '1697.920', 'end': '1703.360', 'text': 'And there was the empty stretcher.\nThe door of the open chamber.'}, {'start': '1703.360', 'end': '1705.360', 'text': 'The body was not there.'}, {'start': '1705.360', 'end': '1713.680', 'text': "I ran to Dr. Molina's office.  We went down\ntogether.  We searched everywhere.  No trace."}, {'start': '1713.680', 'end': '1718.960', 'text': 'We checked cameras, but the morgue\nhad no direct recording.  We gave it up for'}, {'start': '1718.960', 'end': '1726.240', 'text': 'lost.  We reported it.  No one responded.\xa0  It\nwas as if no one had ever brought it.'}, {'start': '1726.240', 'end': '1732.280', 'text': 'But the next night when I returned\nas a matter of routine, the body was there again.'}, {'start': '1732.800', 'end': '1740.040', 'text': 'Inside the chamber.  Without clothes.  Covered\nwith earth.  Just like the first day.'}, {'start': '1740.040', 'end': '1746.520', 'text': 'The doctor wanted to think that someone was\nplaying a macabre joke on us.  That maybe he was a'}, {'start': '1746.520', 'end': '1752.440', 'text': 'crazy person.  But the following days\nwere worse.  The body disappeared'}, {'start': '1752.440', 'end': '1760.080', 'text': 'and reappeared.  Sometimes with small changes:\na new broken nail, a mark on the skin,'}, {'start': '1760.080', 'end': '1768.440', 'text': "hair a little longer.  Other times, with our\nheads turned to where we hadn't left them."}, {'start': '1768.440', 'end': '1775.160', 'text': 'One morning I decided to stay and keep watch.  I\nhid behind the instrument cabinet'}, {'start': '1775.160', 'end': '1783.760', 'text': 'with a flashlight and a thermos of coffee.  After\nthree, the light flickered.  The temperature dropped'}, {'start': '1783.760', 'end': '1791.040', 'text': 'sharply.  And then, without anyone touching\nanything, the chamber door opened by itself.'}, {'start': '1791.040', 'end': '1798.440', 'text': 'The body was not moving.  But his mouth was\nopen.  And a whisper came out of her.  A'}, {'start': '1798.440', 'end': '1805.440', 'text': "dry sound, like leaves blown by the wind.\xa0  I\ndidn't understand the words.  But they weren't noise."}, {'start': '1805.440', 'end': '1813.360', 'text': "They were ancient syllables.  And at that moment I knew I\nwasn't looking at a dead body.  Not completely."}, {'start': '1813.360', 'end': '1819.240', 'text': 'Dr. Molina decided to call the\nregional police.  He told them everything.  He'}, {'start': '1819.240', 'end': '1825.160', 'text': 'asked them to take the body away.\nTwo officers came.  When they opened the camera, they'}, {'start': '1825.160', 'end': '1832.800', 'text': 'found him with his eyes open.  One of\nthe officers vomited.  The other, without saying anything,'}, {'start': '1832.800', 'end': '1840.560', 'text': 'wrapped him in a bag and put him in the\nback of his vehicle.  They never reached their destination.'}, {'start': '1840.560', 'end': '1848.480', 'text': 'The car appeared in a ravine, with no signs\nof impact, no trace of the police.'}, {'start': '1848.480', 'end': '1855.600', 'text': 'Only the body was there, sitting in the\npassenger seat, with the seatbelt fastened.'}, {'start': '1855.600', 'end': '1862.320', 'text': 'Since then, no one wanted to touch it.  Nobody\nwanted history to repeat itself.  The doctor'}, {'start': '1862.320', 'end': '1869.760', 'text': 'made arrangements to bury him anonymously,\nin an isolated plot of land.  But when digging the hole,'}, {'start': '1869.760', 'end': '1877.400', 'text': 'the shovel bounced.  The floor was completely\nhardened, as if something underneath was preventing it from being opened.'}, {'start': '1877.400', 'end': '1883.360', 'text': 'So we decided to cremate it.  A\ndesperate decision.  But when'}, {'start': '1883.360', 'end': '1888.400', 'text': 'we tried to move him from the morgue, it\nwas impossible to lift him.  It weighed'}, {'start': '1888.400', 'end': '1893.960', 'text': "like a rock.  Four men\ncouldn't move him an inch."}, {'start': '1893.960', 'end': '1896.480', 'text': 'That night I quit.'}, {'start': '1896.480', 'end': '1903.480', 'text': 'Days later, the hospital closed temporarily\ndue to structural failures.  But I know it was'}, {'start': '1903.480', 'end': '1910.240', 'text': 'for another reason.  Out of fear.  Dr.\nMolina left town.  The morgue'}, {'start': '1910.240', 'end': '1916.840', 'text': 'was closed.  But the room is still\nthere.  Abandoned.  Locked with chains.'}, {'start': '1916.840', 'end': '1922.880', 'text': 'Once, before I left for good, I walked\npast the window that overlooks the wing where'}, {'start': '1922.880', 'end': '1929.280', 'text': 'the morgue was.  I swear I saw the light on.\nAnd a silhouette standing next to the stretcher.'}, {'start': '1929.280', 'end': '1935.040', 'text': 'The smell of earth still appears,\nfrom time to time, even now,'}, {'start': '1935.040', 'end': '1942.320', 'text': 'in this city far from the countryside.  Sometimes when opening\na door, or in the steam of hot water.\xa0\xa0  It'}, {'start': '1942.320', 'end': '1948.880', 'text': 'reminds me that there are bodies that do not accept\nrest.  And that some things are not dead.'}, {'start': '1948.880', 'end': '1956.220', 'text': 'Just...buried.'}, {'start': '1956.220', 'end': '1962.560', 'text': '...'}, {'start': '1962.560', 'end': '1969.360', 'text': 'My name is Lucia.  I worked as an administrator in the\njudicial morgue of a medium-sized city, in one of'}, {'start': '1969.360', 'end': '1976.160', 'text': 'those provinces where everything seems to repeat itself\nday after day.  My job was unspectacular:'}, {'start': '1976.160', 'end': '1983.440', 'text': 'receiving the bodies, registering their arrival,\npreparing the autopsy documents and issuing the'}, {'start': '1983.440', 'end': '1990.800', 'text': 'removal authorizations.  Almost all from a\nsmall office with two metal filing cabinets,'}, {'start': '1990.800', 'end': '1996.640', 'text': 'an old computer, and an intercom\nthat buzzed more than it spoke.'}, {'start': '1996.640', 'end': '2002.560', 'text': 'But there was something I knew, and I never said it\nout loud.  Something that made me check the list twice every afternoon'}, {'start': '2002.560', 'end': '2007.120', 'text': "when I closed the day's folder\n:"}, {'start': '2007.120', 'end': '2014.560', 'text': 'there were bodies that disappeared from the system without\nexplanation.  They were not stolen.  They were not retired.\xa0\xa0  They'}, {'start': '2014.560', 'end': '2020.320', 'text': 'were not transferred.\nThey simply ceased to exist in the inventory.'}, {'start': '2020.320', 'end': '2028.560', 'text': 'The first time was a mix-up, I thought.  An NN\nadmitted after a fire.  Unrecognizable body,'}, {'start': '2028.560', 'end': '2035.760', 'text': 'but with its assigned number.  The next day, there\nwas no record in the system.  I went to check the'}, {'start': '2035.760', 'end': '2044.040', 'text': 'physical files.  Nothing.  I asked the technicians:\nno one remembered having moved it.  I went to the'}, {'start': '2044.040', 'end': '2051.240', 'text': 'cold room where it was supposed to be and found nothing.  Not\neven the sheet they wrapped him in.  I'}, {'start': '2051.240', 'end': '2058.680', 'text': "didn't report it.  I felt ridiculous.  I thought I\nhad made a mistake, that maybe I had confused it with"}, {'start': '2058.680', 'end': '2067.560', 'text': 'another case.  But a month later, it happened again.\nThis time, with a young woman, brought in after a'}, {'start': '2067.560', 'end': '2073.920', 'text': 'suicide.  I had a name, ID, and\nfamily members who signed for the receipt.'}, {'start': '2073.920', 'end': '2083.560', 'text': 'We attended her on a Friday.  On Monday, he was no longer\nin the system.  No body.  No papers.  No signature.  And,'}, {'start': '2083.560', 'end': '2089.840', 'text': "most terrifyingly, when I went to ask the\ncoroner who had examined her, he told me he couldn't"}, {'start': '2089.840', 'end': '2096.040', 'text': 'remember any woman with that name.  That\nmaybe I was confusing it with another case.  I'}, {'start': '2096.040', 'end': '2102.640', 'text': 'started keeping copies.  Every\nstrange entry was secretly photocopied and'}, {'start': '2102.640', 'end': '2107.000', 'text': 'stored in a hidden filing cabinet\ninside the cleaning cabinet,'}, {'start': '2107.000', 'end': '2113.960', 'text': 'where no one would check.  In less than six\nmonths, he had seven records.  Seven'}, {'start': '2113.960', 'end': '2120.640', 'text': 'people who disappeared without a\ntrace.  No explanation.  Illogical.'}, {'start': '2120.640', 'end': '2126.280', 'text': 'But the case that left its mark on me happened one night\nwhen I stayed later than usual.'}, {'start': '2126.280', 'end': '2131.680', 'text': "The system had crashed and I had to\nmanually upload that day's income"}, {'start': '2131.680', 'end': '2137.640', 'text': '.  It was 10:14 p.m.  I remember it well\nbecause I had promised myself not to stay'}, {'start': '2137.640', 'end': '2144.480', 'text': 'after 10:00 p.m.  The last body\nof the day arrived wrapped in a red bag, one'}, {'start': '2144.480', 'end': '2149.960', 'text': 'of those we use only in cases of\nhigh biological contamination.  It came without'}, {'start': '2149.960', 'end': '2157.600', 'text': 'external identification, but with a\nmanual label: “Special case. Confidential entry.”'}, {'start': '2157.600', 'end': '2164.400', 'text': 'I went to check the order.  There were none.\nNothing in internal mail, nothing on paper,'}, {'start': '2164.400', 'end': '2170.120', 'text': 'not even a prior call.  I left\nmy office and went down to the'}, {'start': '2170.120', 'end': '2176.240', 'text': 'refrigeration area.  The guard on duty\nwas not there.  The door was ajar.'}, {'start': '2176.240', 'end': '2182.520', 'text': 'The stretcher with the red bag was right in\nfront of camera number 4. Nothing could be heard'}, {'start': '2182.520', 'end': '2190.080', 'text': '.  No motors, no steps.  Only the\ndistant hum of the emergency lights.  I moved closer'}, {'start': '2190.080', 'end': '2196.320', 'text': 'to read the label on the bag\nmore clearly.  And then, it moved.'}, {'start': '2196.320', 'end': '2204.160', 'text': 'Not much.  Just a tremor.  But I saw it.  The\nplastic contracted as if something was breathing'}, {'start': '2204.160', 'end': '2211.680', 'text': "inside it.  I took a step back.  I thought about running.\nBut my legs didn't respond.  The cold"}, {'start': '2211.680', 'end': '2217.520', 'text': 'became dry, stagnant, as\nif the air had stopped.'}, {'start': '2217.520', 'end': '2223.640', 'text': 'Then a sound was heard.\nNot strong.  Like a soft,'}, {'start': '2223.640', 'end': '2229.120', 'text': 'wet crunch.  The zipper on the\nbag started to open by itself.'}, {'start': '2229.120', 'end': '2233.320', 'text': "I didn't open it.  No one else was there.  I swear.  I did"}, {'start': '2233.320', 'end': '2240.080', 'text': "n't wait to see what was inside.  I ran out\nand didn't stop until I was out of the building.  That"}, {'start': '2240.080', 'end': '2246.560', 'text': "night I didn't sleep.  I called my boss and told her I\nhad an anxiety attack.  They gave me"}, {'start': '2246.560', 'end': '2254.000', 'text': 'three days off.  When I came back, I asked\nfor confidential entry.  I was told there'}, {'start': '2254.000', 'end': '2261.320', 'text': 'was no such income.  That there was no record.\nWhich was probably a misunderstanding on my part.'}, {'start': '2261.880', 'end': '2268.200', 'text': 'But I knew they were lying.  Because when I returned\nto my office, I found'}, {'start': '2268.200', 'end': '2276.080', 'text': 'a printed sheet on my desk.  It had no letterhead or stamp.\nJust one line of text, centered on the paper:'}, {'start': '2276.080', 'end': '2277.360', 'text': '"THERE ARE EIGHT."'}, {'start': '2277.360', 'end': '2284.440', 'text': 'From that moment on, I knew something—or someone—\nwas erasing bodies from the system.'}, {'start': '2284.440', 'end': '2292.640', 'text': "No common bodies.  Not missing due to\nhuman error.  No. Bodies that shouldn't exist."}, {'start': '2292.640', 'end': '2300.240', 'text': 'I started to notice the patterns.  All the\nmissing bodies had one thing in common:'}, {'start': '2300.240', 'end': '2304.440', 'text': 'they came from sinister places.  Abandoned houses,'}, {'start': '2304.440', 'end': '2310.560', 'text': 'ruins, lonely fields.  They always\narrived with few explanations,'}, {'start': '2310.560', 'end': '2317.320', 'text': 'almost always brought by police officers who were not\nfrom the jurisdiction or who no one else ever saw again.'}, {'start': '2317.320', 'end': '2323.320', 'text': 'One such case was a man found in\na closed tunnel under the train station.'}, {'start': '2323.320', 'end': '2329.160', 'text': "He had strange tattoos on his chest,\nletters that didn't correspond to any"}, {'start': '2329.160', 'end': '2335.120', 'text': 'language.  I brought it personally\non the form.  I saw his face.\xa0\xa0  I would'}, {'start': '2335.120', 'end': '2343.080', 'text': 'recognize him anywhere.  But the\nnext day, the body was gone.  And instead,'}, {'start': '2343.080', 'end': '2349.520', 'text': 'inside the chamber, was a photograph\ntaped to the metal wall.  In'}, {'start': '2349.520', 'end': '2358.240', 'text': 'the photo I appeared, in front of the camera, with the\nred bag behind me.  A photo taken from inside.  I'}, {'start': '2358.240', 'end': '2363.600', 'text': 'resigned that same week.  I left\nthe city, deleted my accounts,'}, {'start': '2363.600', 'end': '2369.480', 'text': "changed my address.  But the fear didn't\ngo away.  Because recently, I received a letter."}, {'start': '2369.480', 'end': '2376.760', 'text': 'No sender.  Inside, just a sheet folded\nin three.  A word written in blue ink:'}, {'start': '2376.760', 'end': '2377.480', 'text': '"NINE."'}, {'start': '2377.480', 'end': '2385.360', 'text': 'And there was no signature.  Just a slight reflection of moisture\non the paper.  As if someone had taken it'}, {'start': '2385.360', 'end': '2397.425', 'text': 'from a morgue.  From some forgotten camera.\nAs if someone—or something—were still counting.'}, {'start': '2397.425', 'end': '2397.428', 'text': '...'}, {'start': '2397.428', 'end': '2398.868', 'text': 'My dear audience: if you have made it\nthis far, I thank you for having accompanied me'}, {'start': '2398.868', 'end': '2417.480', 'text': 'throughout these five stories.  Perhaps,\nlike me, you have sometimes felt that there are'}, {'start': '2418.920', 'end': '2423.216', 'text': "things that cannot be explained, details\nthat don't add up, silences that weigh more than"}, {'start': '2423.216', 'end': '2424.497', 'text': 'any scream.  What you have just heard\nare not just stories: they are warnings disguised'}, {'start': '2424.497', 'end': '2424.840', 'text': 'as memories.  Scraps of experiences\nthat refuse to stay in the past.'}, {'start': '2424.840', 'end': '2426.196', 'text': 'If any of these stories resonated with you,\nif you have experienced something similar, if you know someone'}, {'start': '2426.196', 'end': '2426.490', 'text': 'who has worked among bodies and secrets, I\ninvite you to share it.  Because sometimes,'}, {'start': '2426.490', 'end': '2426.653', 'text': "telling what you've seen is the only way\nto make sure it's not forgotten."}, {'start': '2426.653', 'end': '2430.862', 'text': "And if you want to continue hearing more stories like\nthese, don't hesitate to explore the channel.  There are many"}, {'start': '2430.861', 'end': '2438.298', 'text': 'more voices that have yet to be heard… and\nthat are still waiting their turn in the darkness.'}]