December 9, 2025 • 39 mins
As a retired border guard records his memories for posterity, his loyal dog begins acting strangely, and an ancient spirit forces him to confront a violent past he’s tried to forget.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Greetings at Ben Veniel's, fellow seekers of the Dark.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Danny Thhel.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to Nocturnal Tales from the Shadows.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
By the enchanted frames of this fire, we transcend time.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And space to enter the darkest depths of the.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Latin American imagination.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Legend and lore passed down.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Through the years and retold with a twist. Across the world.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Dogs are known as the man's best friend, but across
Mexico and Central America there is a legend of elga
Eco two dogs, one a bringer of good fortune, the
other a bringer of doom, depending on what you deserve.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
A loyal compare and orn't you a spirit? Only time
will tell.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Everybody get a burger.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
It's a live before k Okay, I need to know
if anybody a burger?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Oh God, Timmy, don't touch it. Just leave her right there, Grandpa,
make you another one?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Okay, already on it.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
I got one coming, Timmy, right here, Quit extra.
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Cheese, can sergeant the one that fell?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Grandpa?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I don't know what do you say? Oh boy, you've
been good enough for a burger.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
You a dog would have ate it right off that plate.
Look at that shoot.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh he's a good old boy. All right, go on, then,
don't get it.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Water if kke time, kids along, I've got a crown.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Birthday. Happyday, Grandpa, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You know Grandpa in the whole.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
It would be just like you when I grow up.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hi, y'all you must be Read's daughter. Yeah, Andela is
it's me?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
How are you well?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I can't say no, Just drop it off on my
famous strawberry lemonade for birthday?
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Boys?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Sweet?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
You should I know anything for our neighborhood hero.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
My lord.
Speaker 10 (03:06):
That dog of.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yours is so well trained?
Speaker 11 (03:10):
What is he? A door bren?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All right, I hear bread a most loyal dog you'll
ever meet. You're not right, boy, Well you would have
a dog like that. Okay, well, gotta run. Happy birthday, Ricky.
Y'all have fun, not too much fun? Okay, bye, now,
thanks for the lemonade, of course, in exchange for Kate.
(03:34):
Don't forget he was up.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh God, bless she's so sweet. I don't see everybody
loves you dwn. Oh would you mind if I poor
on a lemonade?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh God, save yourself, honey. That is the nastiest stuff.
You'll ever taste what? God damn splendo?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh hey, Dad, do you do you know that ma'am?
Right there across the street. He's just standing there with
like a like a weird smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Must be a new neighbor or something.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
It doesn't look like he belongs here. Hey, hey, join us,
come on over us and Kate. It was so weird.
I was just staring. I think he's looking at you.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Are you sure you don't know him?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Ever seen him before?
Speaker 12 (04:38):
M what's wrong?
Speaker 11 (04:43):
The sort?
Speaker 7 (04:44):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
And the Lord's gotten into him? Sorry, Knoll, that strange
guy is gone. I don't know where he went. He
gets me in the creeks.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Now, I wouldn't give it too much thought.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You really gotta start locking her doors at night, Dad,
I'd feel much better if you did what.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I've got a kidnet of shotguns.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Remember, Plus there's soverige, I guess.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Granda. Can you tell us the story of when you
saw the ghost sog in the desert?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Yea, let's hear that one another time. Okay, Tammy, just
go say by to your cousins. We gotta get going. Hey, Dad, uh,
I got a presser for you?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh answer, I said, no present.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I know, I know, bet this one's this one more
of a selfish gift. Here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, now I am curious.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
A voice recorder. Huh that's new.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, it's it's so that you can record your your
life story. You know, it's from me and the kids.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm gonna die soon.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
That I'm being serious. You've lived an incredible life.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
And you've just you've seen so much, and that's any
stories it would mean a lot to all of us.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, I don't know, Angie, I'm not too good with gadgets.
Speaker 13 (06:26):
You know that it's easy.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I made sure of it.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I'll show you so.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
There are no touchscreens. You just clicked this here, big
red button to start recording. Huh, and wants to stop
it and to rewind and wants to stop it. See
that's nice when I in schools like you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Then just promise me you won't shove it in a drawer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I promise. Okay, let's see hello, Hello, Hey, I'm mad
all right?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh, okay, this is Rick.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Richard James Walker. Grandpa Rick is what I go by
these days. I'm not really sure who's gonna wanna listen
to all this? But uh, well but Angie asked for
my life story, So.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Here goes.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I was born in Del Rio, spent thirty two years
on the border, retired after the stroke, but I still
got my wits about me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Mostly.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh hey, Serge, don't interrupt.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Come on, boy.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Well, like I said, that, Serge best dog I ever had.
We've had some good years together, that we boy.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yeah, we have. No matter what the job was,
he was right there with me.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Never, I mean never let me down. Well, maybe not never, but.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
There was a little learning curve in the beginning. You
you remember your first day on the job, boy, don't you? Yeah,
must have been what thirteen years ago. Wow, the day
(08:43):
was hot as hell out there on the sand. My
partner Marty, and I had a bunch.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Of illegals we picked up out on the coach.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It was a mistake bringing a puppy out there, I
tell you too, damn cute for this line of works.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We got five or six of them.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Took him out of the goats heading west.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
After that, can pick up an hour.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, we hold him until then over and our Hey, hey,
you stay down, don't you make a sound. Hey, eyes
on the ground, don't think about running. Let me take
you down, you some a bitch. Hey, rick your number.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Man's getting a belly road right here?
Speaker 11 (09:30):
Look at the things?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Boy?
Speaker 13 (09:31):
Is that fun?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
One of the.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Illegals head sarch old billy up, wagging his tail, licking
all over his face like some kind of goddamn lapdog.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Don't you touch my dog? Get over here?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Search?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Come, I said, come said that.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Let me dick ittut.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Search damn it? Come, son of a bitch.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Sarge completely ignores me, and when I go over to
grab him, he bites me.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Son of a bitch, bites me.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll teach you a lesson, dog. He learned fast, though,
smart dog. But I'm getting off track now.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Let's see Timmy was asking for a story earlier, The
ghost doll.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
All the kids loved that one.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Why the snow big as the damn wolf eyes glowing
under the full move.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Sorry search, it's just the wind.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Blow he down and shut up?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
On Where was I right?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Right? The ghost doll? See?
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Funny thing is I never told you kids the whole story.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Uh? And it was October. I think.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
We got a tip movement near a rullum whereto place
we didn't go unless we had to, but we were
bored in one smashing. Then this storm rolls in, no warning,
flash flood in the fucking desert. So Marty and I
get stuck out there in the mud, reception and shit.
(11:34):
So we figure we'll just spend the night, call for
backup in the morning. It must have been three am
and we're hearing this noise out there in the dark.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The fuck is that, Marty?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Is that is that a baby? Real shit?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Get to rink on off?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Damn it.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
You really want to go out there?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Fuck yet, you want to catch some fish or not?
Let's go, Ricky. Not way toward the creek sounds more
like a damn river.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
I thought, you work my arm, but I did. I
got y'all think the water.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
God, we got the water.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You can't stand.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
The creek had turned into.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
A full blown river, and the current was fast and mean.
Even a good swimmer would stand a chance.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The sheep, Ricky, you understand what that saint over there?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Yeah, father went under?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think, fuck man, not damn lucky dead. Should have
standing down the side that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No little boys through a little rocket, Marty.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
She had she him squaring the nose.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I saw this look come into Marty's eyes like a
devil whispered into his ear, and well mm, he takes
out his gun.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You go back across the river where you came from
us from me, cat get.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Is not the way I would have done it. That
was marty for you.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The family tried to.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Cross on.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Your video.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Put my heart for him here that all.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
They got halfway in. The mother got pulled under and
didn't come back up.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Baby steal in her arms and everything.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Little boy tried to save her, but he was drowning.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
To Then out of nowhere a dog, big as hell, white,
pure white, almost blue in the moonlight, eyes yellow with
glowing I swear to god.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
It swims out into the river and grabs the boy
by the back of his shirt, drags him out of
the water.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Carries him away, and just like that gone.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
I never told you the whole story for obvious reasons.
Out on the border, we got into a lot of well,
tricky situations. Sometimes there's things you do that you're not
proud of. But a swarm duty is a swarm duty.
(15:28):
Sometimes it's messy work, but someone has to do it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Oh my god, he's a sorg.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Hey, what is it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Charge?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You see something out there?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Somebody out there marche. It's just the wind. Come on, boy,
let's get some shut out. I've had a storytelling for
one night.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Hey, o, Rick, that Doug of yours has got big boy?
Speaker 14 (16:12):
What is he?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Eighty pounds now looking at that thing as a.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Monster almost ninety?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Whoop.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
He's a real good old boy.
Speaker 15 (16:18):
Now, datie, ain't you buddy? Ain't you a real good dog?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You know how to play?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Fetch you what?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Oh yeah, you know it?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I want this right here?
Speaker 15 (16:27):
Stick huh, I'll search.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Doug a good one.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Look this.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Oh wow, Martie, come on, you got it.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You gotta throw it further than that.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Put your shoulder.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Into it.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Right right, dake it. He's taking he yo, nine, there
you go?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
All right?
Speaker 15 (16:50):
Herry comes come on, boy, Terry comes fling this this?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Wait? Hey, what the hell is it?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Quote quote dropping charge? Sergeant?
Speaker 13 (17:01):
Drop it?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I said, drop it?
Speaker 14 (17:02):
Sorry, so I think it is?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh my god, my fuck?
Speaker 13 (17:20):
Yah dah.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Dad, Hey, it's going on with you?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Sorry, honey. I didn't get any sleep last night. So
what did you say?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
It's all right, I just I just asked you if
you were done with your plate.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh yeah, thank you. You didn't have to come over
and cook I know how busy you are with Timmy
and work.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Oh, come on, that's it's just sandwiches, Dad, I can
make them with my eyes closed. Okaysage, Now, why didn't
Why didn't you get any sleep?
Speaker 13 (17:55):
What's going wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Had a goddamn nightmare?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
What really?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Well? Tell me about it.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, I'm out in the desert with Marty. It's not time,
and we start playing fetch with Sorge. But when he
comes back, he's got something else in his mouth. A
goddamn baby.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What Its skin is all decayed and covered the maggots.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
It ain't got any eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh, but somehow it's still alive.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh my god, that's awful. I'm sorry, daddy. Oh Jesus,
Sarge secured the devil? What's going on with him?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And acting up lately, crying for no reason?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Arge? Goddamn it kind of sounds like he's one. So
are you sure you're feeding enough?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Fed him the same as usual, He didn't touch it.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
He's just hungry. He's no dog, dad. You know what,
he might not want that kibble anymore. He might need
something softer, like a canned food or something. You should
go get him something.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh you know, maybe you're right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'll pick him somebody the store later, two for one.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Of brows and stock of one of last.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Let's see can food, can food, canned food.
Speaker 16 (19:36):
Here we go, let's see organic, grain free whitefish. The
hell is that kangaroo christ liberals?
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Here we go, one hundred percent beef.
Speaker 15 (19:55):
Excuse me, sir, it's Rick, isn't it U?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah? Yeah, Uh, I'm Rick. We met before, I believe.
Speaker 15 (20:05):
We have, but it's been a while. You might not
remember me.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Were you the young man who stopped by my birthday party?
Speaker 15 (20:18):
That's right, sir, you have a very nice family.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Was that your grandson?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm sorry, son, I don't think I remember you that.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Well, maybe it's uh, maybe it's my age. Remind me.
Are you a neighbor or something?
Speaker 15 (20:35):
Well, there's a story we tell back home about it,
Guy the Hole.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Maybe you've heard of it.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
No.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
It seeks out those who are pure of heart and
watches over them. Uh huh, protects them, keeps them safe.
But there's another one. The Guy the Hole Negro the
dark Twin. Yeah, it follows those whose souls are corrupted.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It follows, and it follows.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
Never letting you out of its sight, really patiently. It watches,
and it waits. It sees through you, Rick, it sees
every dark corner of your heart.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And when the time.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Comes where look what it is hid?
Speaker 13 (21:21):
How is.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Martha? Hi?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Lemonade?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Was u?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It was real good?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was real good. Did you see where that young
man went?
Speaker 16 (21:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
What what young man was that? You didn't see?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well look never mind. Well I'm nice seeing you, Martha.
I got run.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Home.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
When you have a good night, see soon, okay, And
with just seconds left before halftime, the chiefs.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Hard line something. Come on, man, come on, oh come on,
you sons of bitches.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
He'd been waiting a long time for this.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You're wide open.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
What the.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Sorche sit out looking and he's done it. He's in
the unson and old. That's a touchdown. Jeez, God, damn it.
Oh ship, the hell has gotten into these, Sorge.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The family tried to cross. What the hell they got
halfway in?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
The mother got put the hell didn't come back. Come on,
the still in her arms, ming on, Come on, was drowning.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
He was drowning, drowning.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Oh Sorge, no, no, no, no, no, no, come he here,
sarch I'm sorry, boy, listen. You know I'm not a
bad person, right, I'm a good man, a family man,
right sarch. I swear to God, boy, I don't care
(23:34):
if you're going see out, I'm gonna get you a
shot collar.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Keep acting like this.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I swear to God.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
That is everything? All right? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
When did you get here?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Just now?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What happened? What's going on? What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Startle me and I spilled my coffee. I don't know
what's going on with him?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He's still not even.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
Come here, boy, come on here, come here.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
You know that I don't want to say it, but uh,
he's kind of getting to that age.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
How about you? You feel all right? Kind of got
bags under your eyes?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Yeah, that damn recorder you gave me was making all
kinds of noise, so I threw it against the wall.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Look the damn thing, daddy, Let me take a look
at it. Come over here. Oh well look I think
I found the culprit. The battery just got knocked right
out of place. See yeah, see there, that should do it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The family tried.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
It looks like somebody was recording. Oh thank you, daddy.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Been trying at least, So you just came to check
up on me, make sure I wasn't what dead?
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh, actually, daddy, I uh uh I got some news
and uh, well you you probably won't sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Well, you remember your own partner, Marty. Uh huh, Well
I ran into his wife at the store, Dad, Yeah, Dad, Marty.
Marty died when it was just a few days ago.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Actually they died. Oh my god. Was it a heart attack?
Speaker 11 (25:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No, he uh he was mulled to death. Yeah, it
was some kind of a freak accident. This some kind
of animal must have gotten into the house and Jesus right,
but his wife, she just found him in pieces. That's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I know, God, Marty, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I'm so sorry about Marty, and I'm so sorry to
have to bring you such bad news.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
That's an awful way to go.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I can't stop thinking about what that strange young man
in the grocery store said. I don't know why, but
I got a pit in my stomach. And now this
news about Marty, something.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
About it doesn't sit right.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
It actually reminded me of something night after the flash
flooded Earroiam Werto, Marty and I got wasted, and I
walked home.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The whole way.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I couldn't shake the feeling of being followed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I kept turning around expecting to see somebody.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
It was like I could feel breathing on the back
of my neck, something right there behind me.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
At the time, I just figured I was wasted. And
now I can't get it out of my head.
Speaker 15 (27:14):
What that young man said, he look at the whole
Negatro the dark twin. It follows those whose souls are corrupted.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It follows, and it.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
Follows, never letting you out of its sight. Patiently, it watches,
and it waits.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
There's another bad storm outside. Hey hey, easy, now, Serge.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Easy, Serge is acting up again, being restless all night,
won't eat marks like he's seeing shit.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Maybe just right's getting close to the end. I don't know,
and I got this pit in my stomach. Sarge, Sorge, get.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Back to bed.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I told you nothing is out there. It's a damn storm.
But you want to see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Thank you're back here. I'm Sorge.
Speaker 13 (28:29):
Come back, you boy, Come on boy, Sorge, sorgeat.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
I could just love.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I see, would you lug at that only six years old,
already looking like a marine.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Shine. Actually, hey, daddy, can you keep an eye on
him real quickly. I'm gonna I'm gonna run to the
corner store. I'm just gonna give me a water. Do
you do you need anything?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
How about a bell?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
It's a playground, daddy, what are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
All right? A goat? Then?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna get you a cover.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Where's mama going.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
She's going to the store. She'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
That weird man is staring at us. Who what the hell?
What hell is he doing here?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Who is he?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Grandpa?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
He's nobody. You listen.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I want you to wait right here. Son, don't go anywhere.
I'm just gonna go talk to the man and I'll
be right back.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Okay, okay, Hey, hey, excuse me?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Here'd he go?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
How would you do?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Sauld bother you? But did a young man come in here?
Speaker 15 (30:20):
Good to see you again, sir?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, you work here? I do.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
If you'd like a haircut, I'm almost a bullshit.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We need to talk.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Follow me.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You've been watching me, my family?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Who the hell are you?
Speaker 15 (30:48):
You don't remember? I still don't know who I am.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I guess that's fair.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
I was very young when we met. And when was
that that night in the desert, the storm, the flood?
You watched my family drown? You You were the kid
I was eight saves by the white Gayeho.
Speaker 15 (31:18):
He heard the agony in my heart and arose from
the depths of my mother's prayers.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And you you just watched. Hold on.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
That wasn't my call. That was Marty and all the
other lives you ruined. Hi, young man, you don't know me.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
What I know or don't know about you isn't important.
But what I do know is this, The Cadejo Negro
will come for you soon, just like it came for
your friend.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You want to blackmail me or something?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
What?
Speaker 14 (31:49):
This? He is?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
How much do you want?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
What's so funny?
Speaker 15 (31:55):
You think you can hide from him, don't you? But
the black a whole He already knows you so well, Rick,
He's been waiting at your feet all these years.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, putting up with you? What are you saying?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
He followed you home.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Jimmy, Jimmy, My look hurts Mommy.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I know, honey, I know it. You just why don't
you close your eyes and we're just gonna wait for
the doctor. Just try not to think about it.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I can't believe you left him alone. What were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I don't know Angela.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Now Timmy said he saw a man just staring at you.
You didn't mention him before. Who was this man?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, it's a long story. Nothing. Look, it's nothing to
worry about. What is going on.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Excuse me?
Speaker 14 (33:13):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Folks were getting that this charge paper has worked up
and you should be out of here in no time.
Speaker 15 (33:17):
Promise me you'll stay off the monkey bars.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Okay, okay, see we're gonna be out of here soon. Timmy.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
It's a very common injury on the playground, so don't
beat yourself up about it.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The stitches will come out on their own.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Thank you, doctor. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Daddy. I'm listen. I'm sorry that I snapped at you.
I'm just worried about you. Ever since Sarge started declining,
you just haven't really been yourself. And now that he's gone,
I don't know what's gonna happen to you.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, no, missing, not gone. Maybe he'll come back.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Sure you know that sometimes animals just go off and
find a quiet place when it's their time and is
there instinct.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
So maybe you're right.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You know, I still remember when you found Sarage, little
runt of a guy. It was what it was right
after that big storm, right at that little guy must
have gotten lost and just just followed you on home.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
What did you say?
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I said, he just must have followed you home, you know,
probably wandered across the border. That'd be ironic. Huh, Daddy,
what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
No, no, nothing, it's nothing. I'm fine.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Hey, Angie, Jimmy, if you're hearing this, it means well, listen.
I just want you to know that that we all
make mistakes, you know, but when i'm a good person,
I want you to know that I'm a good man deep.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Down and I love you. Sorge, Sorge?
Speaker 13 (35:14):
Is that you.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Sorge? I'm not sure I should open that door. I
got all kinds of ideas in my head and I
don't know what's what, Sorge, Sorge.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh, must be losing my damn Sorge. How'd you get
in here?
Speaker 12 (35:52):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Hold on, now, come on now, it's me. Who's my
good old boy? Hey, Sarge? You stay back now. I
want to have to use this, but I swear to
God I will blast you to hell if I have to. George,
I said, stay back, say.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
That I warned you. What in the hell?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:30):
No, now, please, I didn't mean it.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
How about a tree.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You want to.
Speaker 10 (37:00):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Perhaps Sargs wasn't quite the dog Rick thought he was.
And Rick, well, let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Good old boy won't be patrolling any borders where he's headed.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And what about you?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Who will you lead on your path? The Godjo Blanco
or the other one. See you next time on Knockderno.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Nocturno.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
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Greetings at Ben Veniel's, fellow seekers of the Dark.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Danny Thhel.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to Nocturnal Tales from the Shadows.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
By the enchanted frames of this fire, we transcend time.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And space to enter the darkest depths of the.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Latin American imagination.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Legend and lore passed down.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Through the years and retold with a twist. Across the world.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Dogs are known as the man's best friend, but across
Mexico and Central America there is a legend of elga
Eco two dogs, one a bringer of good fortune, the
other a bringer of doom, depending on what you deserve.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
A loyal compare and orn't you a spirit? Only time
will tell.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Everybody get a burger.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
It's a live before k Okay, I need to know
if anybody a burger?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Oh God, Timmy, don't touch it. Just leave her right there, Grandpa,
make you another one?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Okay, already on it.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
I got one coming, Timmy, right here, Quit extra.
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Cheese, can sergeant the one that fell?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Grandpa?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I don't know what do you say? Oh boy, you've
been good enough for a burger.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
You a dog would have ate it right off that plate.
Look at that shoot.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Oh he's a good old boy. All right, go on, then,
don't get it.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Water if kke time, kids along, I've got a crown.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Birthday. Happyday, Grandpa, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You know Grandpa in the whole.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
It would be just like you when I grow up.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hi, y'all you must be Read's daughter. Yeah, Andela is
it's me?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
How are you well?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I can't say no, Just drop it off on my
famous strawberry lemonade for birthday?
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Boys?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Sweet?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
You should I know anything for our neighborhood hero.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
My lord.
Speaker 10 (03:06):
That dog of.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yours is so well trained?
Speaker 11 (03:10):
What is he? A door bren?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All right, I hear bread a most loyal dog you'll
ever meet. You're not right, boy, Well you would have
a dog like that. Okay, well, gotta run. Happy birthday, Ricky.
Y'all have fun, not too much fun? Okay, bye, now,
thanks for the lemonade, of course, in exchange for Kate.
(03:34):
Don't forget he was up.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh God, bless she's so sweet. I don't see everybody
loves you dwn. Oh would you mind if I poor
on a lemonade?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh God, save yourself, honey. That is the nastiest stuff.
You'll ever taste what? God damn splendo?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh hey, Dad, do you do you know that ma'am?
Right there across the street. He's just standing there with
like a like a weird smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Must be a new neighbor or something.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
It doesn't look like he belongs here. Hey, hey, join us,
come on over us and Kate. It was so weird.
I was just staring. I think he's looking at you.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Are you sure you don't know him?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Ever seen him before?
Speaker 12 (04:38):
M what's wrong?
Speaker 11 (04:43):
The sort?
Speaker 7 (04:44):
What?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
And the Lord's gotten into him? Sorry, Knoll, that strange
guy is gone. I don't know where he went. He
gets me in the creeks.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Now, I wouldn't give it too much thought.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You really gotta start locking her doors at night, Dad,
I'd feel much better if you did what.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I've got a kidnet of shotguns.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Remember, Plus there's soverige, I guess.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Granda. Can you tell us the story of when you
saw the ghost sog in the desert?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Yea, let's hear that one another time. Okay, Tammy, just
go say by to your cousins. We gotta get going. Hey, Dad, uh,
I got a presser for you?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh answer, I said, no present.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I know, I know, bet this one's this one more
of a selfish gift. Here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, now I am curious.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
A voice recorder. Huh that's new.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, it's it's so that you can record your your
life story. You know, it's from me and the kids.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm gonna die soon.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
That I'm being serious. You've lived an incredible life.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
And you've just you've seen so much, and that's any
stories it would mean a lot to all of us.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, I don't know, Angie, I'm not too good with gadgets.
Speaker 13 (06:26):
You know that it's easy.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I made sure of it.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I'll show you so.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
There are no touchscreens. You just clicked this here, big
red button to start recording. Huh, and wants to stop
it and to rewind and wants to stop it. See
that's nice when I in schools like you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Then just promise me you won't shove it in a drawer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I promise. Okay, let's see hello, Hello, Hey, I'm mad
all right?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Uh, okay, this is Rick.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Richard James Walker. Grandpa Rick is what I go by
these days. I'm not really sure who's gonna wanna listen
to all this? But uh, well but Angie asked for
my life story, So.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Here goes.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I was born in Del Rio, spent thirty two years
on the border, retired after the stroke, but I still
got my wits about me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Mostly.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh hey, Serge, don't interrupt.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Come on, boy.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Well, like I said, that, Serge best dog I ever had.
We've had some good years together, that we boy.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yeah, we have. No matter what the job was,
he was right there with me.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Never, I mean never let me down. Well, maybe not never, but.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
There was a little learning curve in the beginning. You
you remember your first day on the job, boy, don't you? Yeah,
must have been what thirteen years ago. Wow, the day
(08:43):
was hot as hell out there on the sand. My
partner Marty, and I had a bunch.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Of illegals we picked up out on the coach.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It was a mistake bringing a puppy out there, I
tell you too, damn cute for this line of works.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We got five or six of them.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Took him out of the goats heading west.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
After that, can pick up an hour.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, we hold him until then over and our Hey, hey,
you stay down, don't you make a sound. Hey, eyes
on the ground, don't think about running. Let me take
you down, you some a bitch. Hey, rick your number.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Man's getting a belly road right here?
Speaker 11 (09:30):
Look at the things?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Boy?
Speaker 13 (09:31):
Is that fun?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
One of the.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
Illegals head sarch old billy up, wagging his tail, licking
all over his face like some kind of goddamn lapdog.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Don't you touch my dog? Get over here?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Search?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Come, I said, come said that.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Let me dick ittut.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Search damn it? Come, son of a bitch.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Sarge completely ignores me, and when I go over to
grab him, he bites me.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Son of a bitch, bites me.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll teach you a lesson, dog. He learned fast, though,
smart dog. But I'm getting off track now.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Let's see Timmy was asking for a story earlier, The
ghost doll.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
All the kids loved that one.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Why the snow big as the damn wolf eyes glowing
under the full move.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Sorry search, it's just the wind.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Blow he down and shut up?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
On Where was I right?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Right? The ghost doll? See?
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Funny thing is I never told you kids the whole story.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Uh? And it was October. I think.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
We got a tip movement near a rullum whereto place
we didn't go unless we had to, but we were
bored in one smashing. Then this storm rolls in, no warning,
flash flood in the fucking desert. So Marty and I
get stuck out there in the mud, reception and shit.
(11:34):
So we figure we'll just spend the night, call for
backup in the morning. It must have been three am
and we're hearing this noise out there in the dark.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The fuck is that, Marty?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Is that is that a baby? Real shit?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Get to rink on off?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Damn it.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
You really want to go out there?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Fuck yet, you want to catch some fish or not?
Let's go, Ricky. Not way toward the creek sounds more
like a damn river.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
I thought, you work my arm, but I did. I
got y'all think the water.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
God, we got the water.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You can't stand.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
The creek had turned into.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
A full blown river, and the current was fast and mean.
Even a good swimmer would stand a chance.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The sheep, Ricky, you understand what that saint over there?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Yeah, father went under?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think, fuck man, not damn lucky dead. Should have
standing down the side that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No little boys through a little rocket, Marty.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
She had she him squaring the nose.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I saw this look come into Marty's eyes like a
devil whispered into his ear, and well mm, he takes
out his gun.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
You go back across the river where you came from
us from me, cat get.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Is not the way I would have done it. That
was marty for you.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The family tried to.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Cross on.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Your video.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Put my heart for him here that all.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
They got halfway in. The mother got pulled under and
didn't come back up.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Baby steal in her arms and everything.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Little boy tried to save her, but he was drowning.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
To Then out of nowhere a dog, big as hell, white,
pure white, almost blue in the moonlight, eyes yellow with
glowing I swear to god.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
It swims out into the river and grabs the boy
by the back of his shirt, drags him out of
the water.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Carries him away, and just like that gone.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
I never told you the whole story for obvious reasons.
Out on the border, we got into a lot of well,
tricky situations. Sometimes there's things you do that you're not
proud of. But a swarm duty is a swarm duty.
(15:28):
Sometimes it's messy work, but someone has to do it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Oh my god, he's a sorg.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Hey, what is it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Charge?
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You see something out there?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Somebody out there marche. It's just the wind. Come on, boy,
let's get some shut out. I've had a storytelling for
one night.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Hey, o, Rick, that Doug of yours has got big boy?
Speaker 14 (16:12):
What is he?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Eighty pounds now looking at that thing as a.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Monster almost ninety?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Whoop.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
He's a real good old boy.
Speaker 15 (16:18):
Now, datie, ain't you buddy? Ain't you a real good dog?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You know how to play?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Fetch you what?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Oh yeah, you know it?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I want this right here?
Speaker 15 (16:27):
Stick huh, I'll search.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Doug a good one.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Look this.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Oh wow, Martie, come on, you got it.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You gotta throw it further than that.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Put your shoulder.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Into it.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Right right, dake it. He's taking he yo, nine, there
you go?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
All right?
Speaker 15 (16:50):
Herry comes come on, boy, Terry comes fling this this?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Wait? Hey, what the hell is it?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Quote quote dropping charge? Sergeant?
Speaker 13 (17:01):
Drop it?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I said, drop it?
Speaker 14 (17:02):
Sorry, so I think it is?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh my god, my fuck?
Speaker 13 (17:20):
Yah dah.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Dad, Hey, it's going on with you?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Sorry, honey. I didn't get any sleep last night. So
what did you say?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
It's all right, I just I just asked you if
you were done with your plate.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh yeah, thank you. You didn't have to come over
and cook I know how busy you are with Timmy
and work.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Oh, come on, that's it's just sandwiches, Dad, I can
make them with my eyes closed. Okaysage, Now, why didn't
Why didn't you get any sleep?
Speaker 13 (17:55):
What's going wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Had a goddamn nightmare?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
What really?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Well? Tell me about it.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, I'm out in the desert with Marty. It's not time,
and we start playing fetch with Sorge. But when he
comes back, he's got something else in his mouth. A
goddamn baby.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What Its skin is all decayed and covered the maggots.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
It ain't got any eyes.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh, but somehow it's still alive.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh my god, that's awful. I'm sorry, daddy. Oh Jesus,
Sarge secured the devil? What's going on with him?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And acting up lately, crying for no reason?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Arge? Goddamn it kind of sounds like he's one. So
are you sure you're feeding enough?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Fed him the same as usual, He didn't touch it.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
He's just hungry. He's no dog, dad. You know what,
he might not want that kibble anymore. He might need
something softer, like a canned food or something. You should
go get him something.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh you know, maybe you're right.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'll pick him somebody the store later, two for one.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Of brows and stock of one of last.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Let's see can food, can food, canned food.
Speaker 16 (19:36):
Here we go, let's see organic, grain free whitefish. The
hell is that kangaroo christ liberals?
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Here we go, one hundred percent beef.
Speaker 15 (19:55):
Excuse me, sir, it's Rick, isn't it U?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah? Yeah, Uh, I'm Rick. We met before, I believe.
Speaker 15 (20:05):
We have, but it's been a while. You might not
remember me.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Were you the young man who stopped by my birthday party?
Speaker 15 (20:18):
That's right, sir, you have a very nice family.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Was that your grandson?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm sorry, son, I don't think I remember you that.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Well, maybe it's uh, maybe it's my age. Remind me.
Are you a neighbor or something?
Speaker 15 (20:35):
Well, there's a story we tell back home about it,
Guy the Hole.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Maybe you've heard of it.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
No.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
It seeks out those who are pure of heart and
watches over them. Uh huh, protects them, keeps them safe.
But there's another one. The Guy the Hole Negro the
dark Twin. Yeah, it follows those whose souls are corrupted.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It follows, and it follows.
Speaker 15 (21:04):
Never letting you out of its sight, really patiently. It watches,
and it waits. It sees through you, Rick, it sees
every dark corner of your heart.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And when the time.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Comes where look what it is hid?
Speaker 13 (21:21):
How is.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Martha? Hi?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Lemonade?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Was u?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It was real good?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was real good. Did you see where that young
man went?
Speaker 16 (21:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
What what young man was that? You didn't see?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well look never mind. Well I'm nice seeing you, Martha.
I got run.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Home.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
When you have a good night, see soon, okay, And
with just seconds left before halftime, the chiefs.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Hard line something. Come on, man, come on, oh come on,
you sons of bitches.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
He'd been waiting a long time for this.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You're wide open.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
What the.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Sorche sit out looking and he's done it. He's in
the unson and old. That's a touchdown. Jeez, God, damn it.
Oh ship, the hell has gotten into these, Sorge.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
The family tried to cross. What the hell they got
halfway in?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
The mother got put the hell didn't come back. Come on,
the still in her arms, ming on, Come on, was drowning.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
He was drowning, drowning.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Oh Sorge, no, no, no, no, no, no, come he here,
sarch I'm sorry, boy, listen. You know I'm not a
bad person, right, I'm a good man, a family man,
right sarch. I swear to God, boy, I don't care
(23:34):
if you're going see out, I'm gonna get you a
shot collar.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Keep acting like this.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I swear to God.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
That is everything? All right? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
When did you get here?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Just now?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What happened? What's going on? What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Startle me and I spilled my coffee. I don't know
what's going on with him?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He's still not even.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
Come here, boy, come on here, come here.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
You know that I don't want to say it, but uh,
he's kind of getting to that age.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
How about you? You feel all right? Kind of got
bags under your eyes?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Yeah, that damn recorder you gave me was making all
kinds of noise, so I threw it against the wall.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Look the damn thing, daddy, Let me take a look
at it. Come over here. Oh well look I think
I found the culprit. The battery just got knocked right
out of place. See yeah, see there, that should do it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The family tried.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
It looks like somebody was recording. Oh thank you, daddy.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Been trying at least, So you just came to check
up on me, make sure I wasn't what dead?
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh, actually, daddy, I uh uh I got some news
and uh, well you you probably won't sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Well, you remember your own partner, Marty. Uh huh, Well
I ran into his wife at the store, Dad, Yeah, Dad, Marty.
Marty died when it was just a few days ago.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Actually they died. Oh my god. Was it a heart attack?
Speaker 11 (25:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No, he uh he was mulled to death. Yeah, it
was some kind of a freak accident. This some kind
of animal must have gotten into the house and Jesus right,
but his wife, she just found him in pieces. That's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I know, God, Marty, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I'm so sorry about Marty, and I'm so sorry to
have to bring you such bad news.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
That's an awful way to go.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I can't stop thinking about what that strange young man
in the grocery store said. I don't know why, but
I got a pit in my stomach. And now this
news about Marty, something.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
About it doesn't sit right.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
It actually reminded me of something night after the flash
flooded Earroiam Werto, Marty and I got wasted, and I
walked home.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The whole way.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I couldn't shake the feeling of being followed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I kept turning around expecting to see somebody.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
It was like I could feel breathing on the back
of my neck, something right there behind me.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
At the time, I just figured I was wasted. And
now I can't get it out of my head.
Speaker 15 (27:14):
What that young man said, he look at the whole
Negatro the dark twin. It follows those whose souls are corrupted.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It follows, and it.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
Follows, never letting you out of its sight. Patiently, it watches,
and it waits.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
There's another bad storm outside. Hey hey, easy, now, Serge.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Easy, Serge is acting up again, being restless all night,
won't eat marks like he's seeing shit.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Maybe just right's getting close to the end. I don't know,
and I got this pit in my stomach. Sarge, Sorge, get.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Back to bed.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I told you nothing is out there. It's a damn storm.
But you want to see for yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Thank you're back here. I'm Sorge.
Speaker 13 (28:29):
Come back, you boy, Come on boy, Sorge, sorgeat.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
I could just love.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I see, would you lug at that only six years old,
already looking like a marine.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Shine. Actually, hey, daddy, can you keep an eye on
him real quickly. I'm gonna I'm gonna run to the
corner store. I'm just gonna give me a water. Do
you do you need anything?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
How about a bell?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
It's a playground, daddy, what are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
All right? A goat? Then?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna get you a cover.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Where's mama going.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
She's going to the store. She'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
That weird man is staring at us. Who what the hell?
What hell is he doing here?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Who is he?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Grandpa?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
He's nobody. You listen.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I want you to wait right here. Son, don't go anywhere.
I'm just gonna go talk to the man and I'll
be right back.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Okay, okay, Hey, hey, excuse me?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Here'd he go?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
How would you do?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Sauld bother you? But did a young man come in here?
Speaker 15 (30:20):
Good to see you again, sir?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, you work here? I do.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
If you'd like a haircut, I'm almost a bullshit.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We need to talk.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Follow me.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You've been watching me, my family?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Who the hell are you?
Speaker 15 (30:48):
You don't remember? I still don't know who I am.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I guess that's fair.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
I was very young when we met. And when was
that that night in the desert, the storm, the flood?
You watched my family drown? You You were the kid
I was eight saves by the white Gayeho.
Speaker 15 (31:18):
He heard the agony in my heart and arose from
the depths of my mother's prayers.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And you you just watched. Hold on.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
That wasn't my call. That was Marty and all the
other lives you ruined. Hi, young man, you don't know me.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
What I know or don't know about you isn't important.
But what I do know is this, The Cadejo Negro
will come for you soon, just like it came for
your friend.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You want to blackmail me or something?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
What?
Speaker 14 (31:49):
This? He is?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
How much do you want?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
What's so funny?
Speaker 15 (31:55):
You think you can hide from him, don't you? But
the black a whole He already knows you so well, Rick,
He's been waiting at your feet all these years.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, putting up with you? What are you saying?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
He followed you home.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Jimmy, Jimmy, My look hurts Mommy.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I know, honey, I know it. You just why don't
you close your eyes and we're just gonna wait for
the doctor. Just try not to think about it.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I can't believe you left him alone. What were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I don't know Angela.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Now Timmy said he saw a man just staring at you.
You didn't mention him before. Who was this man?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, it's a long story. Nothing. Look, it's nothing to
worry about. What is going on.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Excuse me?
Speaker 14 (33:13):
All right?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Folks were getting that this charge paper has worked up
and you should be out of here in no time.
Speaker 15 (33:17):
Promise me you'll stay off the monkey bars.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Okay, okay, see we're gonna be out of here soon. Timmy.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
It's a very common injury on the playground, so don't
beat yourself up about it.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The stitches will come out on their own.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Thank you, doctor. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Daddy. I'm listen. I'm sorry that I snapped at you.
I'm just worried about you. Ever since Sarge started declining,
you just haven't really been yourself. And now that he's gone,
I don't know what's gonna happen to you.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, no, missing, not gone. Maybe he'll come back.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Sure you know that sometimes animals just go off and
find a quiet place when it's their time and is
there instinct.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
So maybe you're right.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You know, I still remember when you found Sarage, little
runt of a guy. It was what it was right
after that big storm, right at that little guy must
have gotten lost and just just followed you on home.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
What did you say?
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I said, he just must have followed you home, you know,
probably wandered across the border. That'd be ironic. Huh, Daddy,
what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
No, no, nothing, it's nothing. I'm fine.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Hey, Angie, Jimmy, if you're hearing this, it means well, listen.
I just want you to know that that we all
make mistakes, you know, but when i'm a good person,
I want you to know that I'm a good man deep.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Down and I love you. Sorge, Sorge?
Speaker 13 (35:14):
Is that you.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Sorge? I'm not sure I should open that door. I
got all kinds of ideas in my head and I
don't know what's what, Sorge, Sorge.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh, must be losing my damn Sorge. How'd you get
in here?
Speaker 12 (35:52):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Hold on, now, come on now, it's me. Who's my
good old boy? Hey, Sarge? You stay back now. I
want to have to use this, but I swear to
God I will blast you to hell if I have to. George,
I said, stay back, say.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
That I warned you. What in the hell?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:30):
No, now, please, I didn't mean it.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
How about a tree.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You want to.
Speaker 10 (37:00):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Perhaps Sargs wasn't quite the dog Rick thought he was.
And Rick, well, let's just say that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Good old boy won't be patrolling any borders where he's headed.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And what about you?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Who will you lead on your path? The Godjo Blanco
or the other one. See you next time on Knockderno.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Nocturno.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
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