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0:00never disobey your mother
0:03I don't know where to start
0:06this happened to us years ago when we were still living in Mexico.
0:09we were from Puebla
0:10but we went to Ecatepec
0:12because my dad found him a better job
0:15according to this we would do better there
0:16but since we arrived at that house
0:18my mom used to say that the place gave her a bad feeling.
0:21The 4 of us know,
0:22my parents,
0:23my brother and I.
0:24the cologne was actually ugly
0:26not only because it was insecure,
0:28but because it had something strange in it.
0:29at night you could hardly see people
0:32but there were many dogs
0:33there were always dogs in the street and there were too many of them.
0:36sometimes several would gather in a corner
0:38and just kept looking at people
0:40I used to think I was exaggerating
0:42when they said they were attacking people
0:44but after what happened to my brother
0:46you can't believe anything anymore
0:48my brother started getting together with some guys from around here.
0:51and changed very fast out of nowhere he was wearing new tennis shoes
0:54clothes that we had never been able to buy from him
0:57a better cell phone than my dad's even
0:59and sometimes even brought money
1:02my mom would ask him where he got all that stuff.
1:04but he never answered her
1:06he wasn't mad or anything
1:07but he just said güey or went into his room.
1:11my dad was almost gone
1:12and when my mom used to tell him that something was wrong with him.
1:14did not take it seriously
1:16he said it was because of his age that he would pass it on.
1:19but I don't know if it was the age
1:20but I saw something weird on his face,
1:22it wasn't him anymore.
1:23the day it all happened
1:25my brother dies in the afternoon without warning
1:27my mother yelled at him to stop doing things that he wouldn't go away.
1:30to at least let me know where I was going to go
1:32but the guy didn't pay any attention to him
1:34slammed the door and left
1:35sounds silly but I remember that a lot
1:38when he closed the door I don't know why I got something like a very scared
1:41I miss it because after that,
1:43nothing was normal anymore.
1:46it was getting dark and already in the early hours of the morning
1:49for he had not yet returned
1:50I know that he sometimes arrived
1:51late but that time there was something strange
1:54the house was in a very strange silence
1:57my mom couldn't sleep either
1:59we are both expecting something bad
2:01even if none of them said so
2:03at some point I checked him and he did answer me
2:06I heard noise there
2:07there was music and people talking
2:09as if I were at a party
2:10or in a house with more people
2:12I asked him where he was
2:14and he just told me I'm coming,
2:16I'll be right there
2:17I knew it was fine and then he hung up on me
2:20I don't know how long it took but a while later he sent me an audio.
2:24I still regret listening to it by myself.
2:28at the beginning his normal voice could be heard
2:30it could be heard that he was drunk
2:32and told me he was coming
2:34but then they began to hear barking
2:37stronger and stronger
2:39my brother stopped talking
2:40and you could hear him walking faster
2:43then he was no longer walking,
2:44you could hear him starting to run
2:46his breathing changed very badly
2:48their could be heard and the barking behind them
2:50and then the audio was cut off all at once
2:53I marked him in a hurry
2:54because I got scared but the call didn't come in anymore
2:56he sent me to the all the time
2:59and I ran to my mom and told her what I had heard.
3:02I played the audio I was
3:04but when we played it again it was no longer heard in the same way.
3:09that was the first thing that made me feel
3:11that something was wrong in a way that I cannot explain
3:14because you could no longer hear the or the barking
3:17not even his voice saying he was coming
3:19now all that was heard was a kind of moaning
3:22but a very strange moan so sad
3:25as if someone was crying with their mouth closed
3:28my mom told me that I had probably heard it.
3:30bad for the nerves
3:31but I know what I heard the first time
3:34we went out to look for it
3:35we went with several of whom he met
3:37but we were told that he had not been seen that night
3:40that I had not even arrived with them
3:42some of them didn't even peel us
3:44others just remained silent
3:45as if they know something and don't want to interfere
3:48then we went to the police and they told us the usual.
3:51that we had to wait 48 hours
3:53as if one could
3:54sitting and waiting when you feel something horrible has happened
3:57we return home not knowing what to do
3:59and when we were arriving
4:00with the car lights pointing towards the entrance we saw it
4:03my brother was sitting outside just like that
4:07was sitting
4:07in front of the house with the dirty clothes and everything beaten up
4:10I think it looked as if he had been away.
4:13we ran off and my mom
4:15began to ask him what had happened to him
4:17who had done that to him that where he was
4:20he turned to look at us but he had his eyes lost.
4:24as if I didn't even know where I was
4:26and the only thing he told us was
4:28were the dogs
4:30thened
4:32we carry it
4:33to the hospital while my mom went to pick up my dad
4:35and made calls
4:36I stayed him for a while he was asleep
4:39but he started talking through his teeth
4:40he said things that at the time seemed crazy
4:43he said that the dogs had not bitten him
4:46but had him among several
4:48and that he had been beaten
4:49and that they laughed at him
4:51who was told this is what you get for not obeying your mother
4:54I thought I was raving
4:56that maybe some guys had
4:57attacked and for the show I was mixing it up
4:59with something else
5:00or so I wanted to believe
5:02until I turned to the window
5:04outside the hospital there were dogs
5:06but in a full pack
5:08were looking into my brother's room
5:10I know perfectly well that this looks stupid
5:14but I saw them
5:15were standing on two legs
5:17not all of them moving or doing something exaggerated
5:20but they were still and saw us as if they were people.
5:24I remember getting my eyes fixed
5:26and although I shouldn't be able to explain it,
5:28they were laughing.
5:29I swear I could see their snout and you could see the expression.
5:32horrible as of mockery
5:34as if they knew that I had already seen them
5:36and that no one would believe me
5:38I approached the window a little bit without understanding or wanting to.
5:41understand what I was seeing
5:43and as soon as I moved they all stood still.
5:46then 1x1 started to settle in
5:49and they were walking on 4 legs
5:52as well as if nothing
5:53but I saw that several of them still had that smile on their faces.
5:57at that moment my brother woke up screaming
5:59let out a scream from someone who really thinks she's going to be taken away.
6:03and said let me
6:05I will no longer do it
6:06that's when I knew I hadn't imagined anything.
6:09I really think it was those dogs that did that to him.
6:13after that night
6:14my brother changed a lot he recovered from the blows yes
6:17but he was never the same again
6:19stopped going out and hanging out with those people.
6:22he never answered my mom wrong again
6:24never was late again
6:25it was as if now he was just living by taking care of himself
6:28even when he encountered a stray dog
6:30he was very different
6:32if I went down the street and saw one even if it was far away
6:35became tense
6:37if he heard barking at night he would lock himself in
6:39sometimes he peeked out the window
6:41as if he expects to find something out there
6:44never wanted to tell exactly what happened to him
6:47but how I looked at the dogs after that.
6:50I understood something
6:51that he did not run into normal animals that night.
6:54it seems that something that night only taught him a lesson.
6:59if you have experienced something similar
7:00or you have a story you want
7:02share you can send it to me
7:04the newspaper of courage at Gmail dot com
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