Fantasmas en faros || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

0:00 Why don' t you stay with me? Tonight we' re going to talk sea stories unusual stories, ghost appearances in equally rare places, beacons tales of the dark side for strange beings happenings are inexplicable vanquished stories that other minds prefer to ignore. Or you' ve ever thought about living in a lonely place and you' re completely alone. It' s possible. Yes, and in fact, it is likely that right now you are alone at home or even alive or without the company of other people permanently, or even somewhere remote as well but perhaps one of the key places to live alone perfectly alone, without anyone arriving, without you going to have any unexpected visits. It ' s definitely a lighthouse. You know those lighthouses built on the cliffs, on the islands lost out there, in the middle of the ocean, and

1:30 which have as their function to light up the passage of the ships through a series of mirrors and lenses, produce a powerful luminous ar which is perceived by the ships And understand that it is a sign to stay away. Here' s the coast or here' s a wall or a lower part of the waters, so that if they get closer, they can shut down these lighthouses. For many years they were operated manually in such a way that a boatman was often an individual who lived in the most absolute solitude away from the world days away, sometimes especially in lighthouses that were offshore that were separated from the coast perhaps for one or two miles. The boatman remained there until the next supply ship arrived, which often brought his replacement, so that that man, usually men, could return to the coast and spend another week at home and then climb back up. The point is that these sites were places where you could easily get lost. The reason to be completely disquieted, on the one hand, the very long hours of solitude. On the other hand, the absence of a specific job to do except to place oil on the lamps of the headlamp reflector or give it a little cleaning that there was not much to

3:01 do. Moreover, the constant and permanent noise of the waves could have a very strange effect on individuals and it was not unusual that after some time, when the supply ship returned, it found the lighthouse deserted, completely deserted, and even when the boatman had no way of escaping by calling him somehow this for some reason, or had thrown himself into the waters, or had drowned or might even have been assaulted, which was not very common. But these sites were also known to be places where there were frights, precisely because of the long stories of disappearances and mysterious deaths, even of murders. Many of these lighthouses had macabre stories and behind them, evidently, horror stories. In some particular cases, the us was allowed, for example, to be accompanied by his wife and children when the site allowed it when conditions were adequate enough to live there. There was no doubt that you could also have the wife and children, but that was no guarantee of anything. What I mean is that the guarantee that being accompanied would be better not necessarily. The highest rate of murders and violent deaths within the potter population occurred in those where there was

4:31 a family where it was not uncommon for the potter to murder the woman, the children and then take her life. Why it can be very variable. It is hard to know that it can motivate a man to do such crazy things, but the fact is that these sites were literally places of condemnation. How much and more in those lighthouses that were within the wave zone, These sites were truly incapacitated. Described by one of those potters in a thousand eight hundred and ninety, the Costa Lighthouse was one of the worst places where one could work, not so much because of the risk itself, that it was in itself quite high, but because of the fact that one had to stay locked in that kind of concrete tube, even for days, when some tidal wave occurred, the potter closed the doors tightly type ship hatch doors and locked himself inside to listen to the great waves of the sea hitting against the walls of the lighthouse. The fact that one of these waves would tear out the lighthouse and send it to death must not have been pleasant and it was a fact that, quite often also the waves of the sea could tear off the lighthouse and take it to the bottom of the ocean also potter, so it was a place where they had to stay for perhaps two or three days when

6:01 the galley, that is, bad weather was passing in order to be able to get back out of the lighthouse. Evidently, this confinement also ended with the mitigation of good, to give, for the end of the trial, to finish the reason of the individual who was in charge of those tasks. There was even a special team of people, at least in England, whose function was to check that the boatman was alive and that he was still reasoning. These people made a regular tour depending on the time the boaters had, that is, if they were going to be a week away, The visitor would travel the entire area throughout the week, just to sit down and chat for a while, drink a glass of Geneva with the boatman and distract him for a moment. Often these visits did not carry great provisions, if perhaps a couple of bottles, cigarettes, some tea The important thing was that the man did not go mad and in that strange environment that I am describing to him, it was not unusual for people to lose their mind completely and to ensure that they were being attacked, visited, disturbed in the most varied forms, by spectra, by ghosts. And so great stories of apparitions and unusual things were woven into the lighthouse system. Today, which fortunately, the vast

7:38 majority of the headlamps are automatic, are autonomous systems that are powered by solar energy or by dissol motors that generate electricity, but are controlled through automatic mechanisms, so that no pot is required that is feeding the oil from the lamps or that is taking care, that it is on to turn off the lighthouse in time. The result, of course, is that these constructions are sealed, have a fully airtight hatch and close completely because there are no inhabitants. Ghost stories would also be expected to be reduced. It happens incidentally the opposite and good in that sense. In the sense of the lighthouses and lighthouses, there is a very impressive history in the north of the United States, towards the Atlantic coast, on the Newfoundland peninsula. Since the middle of the 19th century a kind of large lighthouse was erected that is located about two hundred and fifty meters inside the coast. To get to this, you walk along a kind of reef, a series of stones that at some time of the year remain totally discovered from the waters. But in the most intense period of the waves and winds, towards the months of August September, the lighthouse is totally

9:09 isolated from the coast. That kind of stone road is completely covered with the low sea and even in this case, as the tide goes down, it is still covered by some sar of destiny. The lighthouse was located precisely on that wall where for many years there had been accidents. The lighthouse as such operated by means of seal oil or whale oil in what they had at hand which was the same to light the lighthouse. Besides this, there was not much more to do inside. The lighthouse would be about five meters in diameter and about four floors in height, built from septum cement rock, with a thick steel door in the lower part of the potter' s room, the area where he slept was just below. In the lower part of the lighthouse, where there was also a small kitchen, a bathroom connected directly to the waters of the sea and a series of warehouses where it kept clean water to drink and all its food in order to access the lighthouse. This had been equipped with a long internal staircase. This staircase, like a kind of safety measure, was not entirely fixed the walls of the lighthouse, since it was estimated that, in times of storms, the investitation of the waves against the

10:39 lighthouse could provoke reflections, say, that it would move up to five or six centimeters to prevent the ladder from breaking. It was hanging on the inside, so that, as the ladder went up, there was a very peculiar wave of the steps and an equally very peculiar gnashing. In s In the last r part of the ns the lighthouse was found the reflector with its oil lamp and the glassware, like a clockwork mechanism, a kind of string mechanism that caused the lighthouse to turn on its axis and continuously emit the light ones. On this site, in one thousand eight hundred and sixty the first tragic story is told after the inauguration of the lighthouse. The launch of the lighthouse, the first of the ferrets to arrive, was destined to stay a week inside the lighthouse and a week on land in a town near the coast.

11:37 All this on the Newfoundland peninsula. A week would be replaced by another boater and so on they would alternate a week up and a week down, so that they could rest from that loneliness. The first week passed without novelty. The lighthouse operated regularly. Ships then approaching N n n n n NS were calmly able to observe the lighthouse on and around the week. A supply boat took the new boater to the nearest part that could be approached through a small boat to enter the lighthouse and send him back to the port to help.

12:22 Well, his understudy. The other boatman, the one who had already been there for a week quietly descended a lot to lanchita and went home, where he remained a week to give so on for a few months. Everything was going very well, except that one of the boatmen began to complain about feeling weird, feeling very strange. It was called that melancholy and, for the lack of another boatman, again, the melancholy was sent to the lighthouse, where, according to the accounts, the long days of absolute solitude opened suicide in the most perfect silence, without talking to anyone, without any kind of company had been undermining their reason to the point where one night, after lighting the lighthouse and giving it rope, it would have hung within a few days when the replacement of the port arrives, what you find a dantesque spectacle and, however, the lighthouse continued to operate. That part would be recorded there even for a series of publications of 1, 890 in which the lighthouse of Newfoundland was spoken, where, curiously, even after death, the boatman apparently continued to wind up the clockwork that moved the lighthouse. It was clear that the body had been hanging there for at least four days. The process of decomposition had already begun and the smell of fetid became very evident However, every

13:56 night the lighthouse had worked correctly. This had been reported by several ships that had travelled through the area and claimed to have seen the light of the lighthouse, indicating the direction to follow. The boatman who was left in place again began to feel strange. First, he reported the strange feeling of being accompanied by a man who lives alone for a week, yes, and a week. He can' t tell the company from loneliness and this man. A week after being at the lighthouse, he reported feeling terribly restless, terribly uncomfortable and very frightened because of the persistent feeling of being accompanied. The next week, when he was due to return, the boatman just didn' t come back. He left the job and in his place, who had stayed.

14:52 The new boatman had to stay for two weeks. It is said that when the replacement ship arrived after fifteen days of being above the lighthouse, the subject was completely deranged, spoke inconsistencies, had drunk all the gin or whatever they had there in one time, had soiled the rooms, well the lower part and had by chance lost all reason without knowing what it was doing and was evident without fulfilling its functions. It should be noted, however, that the lighthouse was again lit every night and turned around. The boatman who lost his mind was removed from the site and taken to land, where, it is said, he would have been placed in a psychiatric ward, as he would never recover his reason. He kept talking inconsistencies about his friends and those who lived in the lighthouse with him. This process, incidentally, lasted several years, during which several people literally lost their mind to the SNR. In that lonely lighthouse. It was argued that it could be an effect of waves that, when hitting, produced a very particular echo on the walls of the lighthouse, especially in storm days, when strong gusts of wind raise high waves that hit the base of the lighthouse. It was argued that loneliness could be a determining factor, alcohol and many other things, to the point where it was

16:23 determined to place two potters in such a way that all this would be kept company. Around one thousand eight hundred and ninety, the result was definitely not the desired one. In a thousand eight hundred and ninety- three, one boatman killed another and then took his own life. With this, the number of deaths within the lighthouse was four in a minimum space. And yet, every night the lighthouse would turn and turn again. When about one thousand eight hundred and ninety- three replacements arrived to verify the conditions and so on and found the bodies of the two vases, the surprise was enormous, especially as they verified that in the logbook the ships continued to refer to the lighthouse of Newfoundland as a point of reference. In their logbook they scored the routes and gave the reference to lighthouse of Newfoundland thirty degrees starboard or, whatever it meant that the lighthouse was still on. When after a long time it was determined that the boatman lived on the coast and only at night moved through a kind of impalisation, that is, they built a kind of path of trunks up the water to get to where the lighthouse was and thus avoid to some extent the one that had to stay so long. It was strange that on several occasions the boatman claimed to have seen people inside the lighthouse. On entering everything

17:57 was empty, but casually the lighthouse lit and spinning. Suffice it to point out that the lighthouse was not automatic. It did not have an automatic lighter or contemporary devices and yet it operated. This lighthouse would remain in operation until about a thousand nine hundred and twelve, when a strong storm would tear it off. There would be no death in that incident. The boatman, fortunately, had been able to be evacuated before the storm and had managed to save his life. However, the old lighthouse would be completely destroyed in its place. A couple of years later a modern metal lighthouse would be placed completely constructed of steel, which would remain in operation until the forties and fifties, when it would be replaced. However, despite the effort and despite the novelty of the metallic lighthouse, the site would remain an enchanted place and over time, different people who worked on the site claimed to have seen from the old boatman the two comrades who had quarrelled and killed themselves having seen them walking along the railing, that is, by the railing of the upper part on storm nights, such that they had returned from beyond death to carry out their work and keep the lighthouse in sense. There is also another history of very interesting lighthouses

19:32 in England, on the north coast, that is, towards the Exit, on the Channel, towards the Atlantic Ocean, a place where the convergence of the sea currents produce a series of impressive storms practically all year round. The lighthouse in this region was located a long time ago, but towards the end of the 19th century it was decided to build a lighthouse on land away from the n earth in order to illuminate the passage of the great ships that started the vapors and that had to cross through this region so complicated. Leaving the protected ports of the interior region of this Channel, a canal that separates England from the European coast, the ships had to cross precisely by a kind of strait where often the mist was so intense that even during the day it could not be seen on this site. For years, the ships had run aground or had been torn apart against the coast. Even there had been a whole gang of criminals who for years had managed to create optical illusions. That is, they lit bonfires on the coast that pretended to be the lighthouses attracting the ships and then moving the bonfires and thus causing the captains to lose direction and shut down the ships. Then these gangs of criminals acted and well, they

21:07 murdered the crews, they stole the goods all sorts of horrors. The fact is that, when the lighthouse is built, it is determined to even mount an armed guard to guard the lighthouse, so that those gangs or sheaves of criminals would not put it out and then repeat their feat. In the early years, the lighthouse operated normally, although it was not the place where one would like to live by the constant beating of the waves of the sea, the permanent humidity and, of course, the fear of criminal gangs. The place had stayed pretty well. The fact that it was on the ground and could be visited to some extent was already an advantage. On the other hand, the boatman did not live inside the lighthouse, but in a modest cabin built on the side that was also on the top of the cliff and, therefore, there was no risk of water being taken away, as in the case of the lighthouses of Newfoundland. All this was many advantages for the boatman.

22:12 However, the site was totally isolated from the world. The nearest town was a couple of hours away on foot, there were no roads and there was no way to move, except with the emails that were a series of horses that were sent carrying supplies, carrying oils and all that was the only link there was. It is said that between one thousand nine hundred one and one thousand nine hundred and three the lighthouse was occupied by the same person, an old sailor, an old man who had been hired by the Royal British Navy to guard the lighthouse. The time of the criminal gangs had passed. Without consequence, the armed guards had already been removed, being completely alone.

22:56 This man was a strange subject, already they realized that he was a big, very obese individual, completely unarranged, with the beards grown and often drunk, but that he never missed his task of lighting the lighthouse. Every night about one thousand nine hundred and three, without having an exact date, the subject would have been found, killed, probably by an alcoholic crisis. It would have been found by the e- mails, who reported and was sent to another person who first did clean that place because it was a real sewer right away. When he checked the lighthouse, he found that the site had been turned into a true canteen, empty bottles, filled everywhere. In addition, the mechanism had not been cleared in years and was deteriorating. Several things were not in place. The fact is that they start to work, they clean all that and finally the new potter is there. The new boatman turned out to be a man of about forty- five who had also worked for the navy and was now just having something with the wife. He was probably widowed and had ended up living alone completely and began to relate what he lived through. Weeks later, when the mail arrives with the supplies, it is found that the individual looks totally emaciated, nervous, concerned, presents great shiners

24:30 to the point that one of those men asks him if he is healthy, if he feels well or if he prefers that a replacement be sent and that he returns to the city. The man who had found food, sustenance, without having to pay rent there, refuses to leave the place, tells him no, that he is simply distasteful. It passes in the days and returns the mail with new provisions and find it visibly deteriorated, He is seen to be a sick gentado. He hardly talks about a new account. The mailman proposes to report it to the city and ask for a replacement that guy insists that no, that he has no intention of leaving that he will recover from that cold. The mail returns to the nearest city and reports what you have seen. The port captains' guards immediately send a replacement. When the replacement arrives, he finds the subject, that seriously ill man in bed and well he orders to bring a doctor, he does everything necessary and the boatman is taken back to the city. When you are in the doctor' s bed, they check it and so on. He stays there for a few days and recovers favorably. He is then interviewed by the port captain, who asks him what happened. If he was a man he is healthy relatively young, that what had happened to him and then he begins to talk about how.

25:57 Every night and since he had finished his occupations, he had lit the lighthouse, checked that everything was all right, returned to his cabin to lie down for a while and was disturbed by the ghost, that he had not met the previous boatman. I didn' t know what it was like, but I reported seeing the shadow of someone big, of someone obese walking outside the house. I listened to the steps on the stones outside, on the pebbles that were generated there in the gravel. I was listening to the door knob move. On more than one occasion, armed with a shotgun, he had prepared to shoot the intruder, but there was no one. Then it was the pressure that the subject was walking to one side of him, pushing him literally to bother him when he went up to check the light of the lighthouse, to check that there was enough oil for the rest of the night and so on, often descending the ladder a real nightmare, as it was accompanied by the weight of the man who caused him to move from one side to the other while emitting impressive squeaks. The ladder just before we get down.

27:04 It was the opposite. It was to run into that which did not allow to pass and to have to jump the boatman. In addition, he claimed that at least during the night it was impossible to sleep, as he barely closed his eyes and began to have a bit of sleep. I immediately felt the pressure of enormous weight on his body. On one occasion he even claimed to have seen, in fact, a man of about eighty feet tall and of great obesity standing in front of him staring at him. What I had seen perfectly corresponded to the description of the previous potter, the dead potter, so the site was delighted. As this man finished telling his story and explained why he had become ill. There came news of the replacement, who had practically lost his mind just two nights later and was totally sick, sick and sick, talking about the dead person who came to bother him with the dead person who was chasing him from the bad man, since that ghostly presence had caused him to fall from bruises or the lighthouse to go out in the midst of the most absolute darkness. Suddenly the lighthouse had gone out, even though it had oil in spite of everything, it had been paid when the boatman the replacement had gone up to turn it back on, to light and to check why that had happened. The journey of the four- story staircase,

28:37 a floating staircase, had become a real madness, in a situation so tense that this man had ended up getting sick. During the following months, the boatmen came and went continually. There was none that remained until finally it was decided, on the part of the captainship of the port and of some of the potters, to ask the intervention of the clergy, in this case, a minister of the Anglican Church, who was in charge of carrying out a series of prayers inside the house of the lighthouse and in the lighthouse itself to ask for the eternal rest of that person who continued to annoy the potters.

29:18 Of course, the matter was not clear whether it worked or not, as for a thousand nine hundred and fifteen, in the middle of World War I, the lighthouse was still having problems and it was not uncommon for ships, in their movements, starting from the military base of scapa flow towards the North Sea side, to report on dangerous nights the lighthouse off or in broad daylight, on sunny days, the lighthouse on casually, when this potter was claimed in turn, this one assured not having any idea of what they were talking about, since he would light the lighthouse every night. Apparently, however, the old boatman, the one who had died from him, was not very happy that someone had put him in his place and continued to do evil.

30:07 Even if you believe me. There are other ghost stories within the lighthouses that generally deal with the same thing. But there is a very peculiar one that occurred in the American State of New York. In this place between nine hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and forty, that is, at the end of the First World War and at the beginning of the Second World War, a lighthouse was installed on a kind of wall, on a ledge near one of the ports of the city of New York itself, where the great ships departed. In this place it had not been necessary in many years, since the entrance was on the other hand. However, because of the coming war and the one that had happened, it was decided to protect the port by making a kind of barrier and well, new lighthouse was placed. The fact is that this lighthouse had a very beautiful American style house intended for the family of the keeper, so that whoever was in charge of that installation did not have to live alone and had the possibility of being accompanied by his own family and enjoying a little of that. The fact is that he was assigned to a young man, accompanied by his wife and a little boy of just three months.

31:26 The couple found a real paradise in that place. On the one hand, they received a moderately decent payment. On the other hand, they had a house to stay without having to pay rent. Like all services, the lighthouse was already a more modern lighthouse. It had electricity in addition to the oil pump of the headlights. So if one thing failed, the other served. The work was not very constant and basically consisted of spending the nights, checking the lighthouse and during the day giving it a little painting here, a little cleaning and not counting, which is why that couple of lovers of young turtles found their earthly paradise himself. According to reports, some nights, both climbed to the top of the lighthouse, where the railing and corridor are located and with beach chairs. They sat there and watched the ships pass in the distance and watch the sky. It was a quiet place, a very nice place, away from the noise world, away from all the noise and, of course, with a paradise for them. Paradise, however, was not entirely paradisiacal, because there were a number of phenomena that could not be explained at that site. The first of them was a sort of sight at the distance of a sinking ship, as the man counted in the distance. The first time he saw it, he was surprised to see a boat that had

33:00 definitely missed the pass and had headed straight towards the coast, towards an unpopulated part, about ten kilometers away. He had been able to see clearly the lights of a large boat, of a boat with at least three chimneys, probably a transatlantic or perhaps a high- rise freighter who had made a wrong turn and had headed at great speed towards the coast amazed and in the middle of the gloom of seeing such an accident he ran in search of his wife to warn him and hence to give a warning to the authority that a misfortune had occurred. However, when the authorities begin to search because there is no one, there is no accident and the subject was harshly reprimanded. Days later it would be his turn to see people walking a shipwrecked coast, walking near the lighthouse. The lighthouse was about ten meters high, on a small cliff and below was a beach of sandstones and rocks of very cold waters. It ' s Atlantic water in the north. It' s not a place where someone would want to swim. In addition, the waters in this area are quite, how to put it, unexpected, that is, they can quickly change there currents or surge suddenly, so the one staying on the beach runs the risk of being dragged. But suddenly, in the middle of the night they observe with the very light of the lighthouse that reflects people walking. It

34:36 ' s an absolute astonishment. What those people would relate. He and she met the husband and wife upstairs at the lighthouse, enjoying the scenery. When they observe with the light of the lighthouse that turns how there are people walking on the beach below. The lower part near the coast in the middle of the night was not a much- visited place to say there was nowhere to go. The only one down was the one in the eye. It was a place nearby. They remain there, but to their astonishment, walkers never arrive. They break down, dissolve in the darkness itself and are completely lost for several weeks. The couple don' t know very well what they saw, but they' re not willing to leave the lighthouse either. They just didn' t want to leave. It was a place where they lived very happy. Despite these small anomalies. Eventually, one day they go down to town on the occasion of a party. He is in a tavern chatting with other acquaintances and someone hears that he is the protector of the famous tip.

35:39 She comes in and starts talking to him about stories and so on and tells him if he' s never seen anything weird. The ranger amazes the question and finally answers that yes, that there is something that has intrigued him a lot and that he has had to see a couple of times and it is some lights in the distance that seem to be a boat lost the course and then, when that happens, two or three days later, they see people on the beach, but he is not sure that they are people or that it is really a vision of something can simply be steam, fog, anything. However, the man confesses to him that he was there also in a kind of former lighthouse, in a small landmark that was there. He had served and worked for the government and had seen that strange vision, but he had not stayed with the desire, but had at one time gone to the place to see what was really going on and well, recounted or told him that ranger who, in fact, in that part of the coast, In that rugged part of the coast, about 1, 800 ninety would have been some sinking or, at least an accident that motivated the boat to go down to the passengers, who, many of them, without knowing the conditions in which they were found, were roads along the coast and were dragged by the sea. At least be what they were counting on. And this appeared in a very nice magazine there in one thousand nine hundred and sixty, where one

37:09 spoke of that particular case. The boatman lasted up to a thousand nine hundred and forty. They were there for about twenty years living in that house and repeatedly saw him again in this interview that they gave years later, he said that well, they had already gotten used to seeing the walkers who saw themselves as women, adult children walking along the shore and they were disembodied and related that, in fact, their clothes and they did not correspond to someone who went to the beach. They wore heels and things of that style touched on their heads arrangements of their own. From a long time ago to what gave the idea that they were the castaways of that fateful journey. Of course, the lighthouse still remains today. The cabin is still there and while it already has the entire computer system and has a GPS system and a monitor that sends signals, there is still a ranger who lives in the cabin. The interesting thing would be to ask him what he has seen if he still sees that unusual phenomenon. And so, if we continue to travel the shores of the world, we continue to find very strange things. There is another of these mysterious lighthouses found in a region known as Punta Arenas, that is, in a remote area of South Africa. It is located near Cape Town and the

38:45 Cape of Good Hope. It is a small reef located on the Atlantic coast of Africa. On this site, due to commercial traffic issues before the formation of the Suez Canal, it was forced passage of the ships towards the western coasts, towards the eastern coasts, pardon of India, of China. All this was done the crossing in this region from Europe on terribly complicated journeys and that often ended fatefully in this site about one thousand nine hundred fourteen, more or less, With the beginning of the First World War, a lighthouse was established that had two reasons. The first light the ships and prevent them from collapsing or colliding against the reefs, and the second maintain a discreet observation post for enemy ships in full motion. The result was a small military garrison, a booth with a dozen soldiers and a guard who was in charge of keeping the site running. The detail is that the garrison of soldiers itself, along with the keeper, disappeared in a thousand nine hundred and fifteen. It was speculated that they were killed by enemy forces or that they might even have been attacked by some tribe in the area. This area is removed from African cities.

40:07 It is in fact in a very complicated territory where different rival tribes intersect each other. The site is not accessible by land, that is, there are no roads and there is no way to get there. Even a small airfield has been improvised, small airport from where planes from those old fabric biplanes could arrive to bring with them, groceries. Mainly food, ammunition and oil. Water in particular was not a problem, as there was a nearby stream. However, the total loss of the team of people was recorded in that one thousand and fifteen. One day when the plane arrives to resupply, it encounters that there is absolutely no one. When the English Government is notified of the situation. This one sends a military game. Again a ship that anchors near there descends by means of boats and find that, in fact, there was no one in the lighthouse, but there was no evidence of violence, there were no signs of struggle, there were no traces of blood. It ' s more in the cupboards there was food. There were all the things in place, the beds lying down. The only thing is, there was no one. As for the soldiers' weapons, some weapons were in the cabinets while others were missing, demonstrating that several elements had been put on guard to guard the place and others were free, but neither were ever found.

41:37 The mystery would obviously remain there in military history. It was speculated that it would have been a coup by the Spanish military, a kind of operation to end this spying team, since these people sent through the planes that regularly arrived in the area the messages pointing to the time, the position in the tonnage of the ships that crossed that region and was thus informing of the maritime movements of the enemy was reasonable. Finally, the lighthouse was turned off and for several years it remained so was no longer important, especially with the advent of the other intercontinental steps. The lighthouse was no longer entirely useful. However, for the 1960s it was again necessary during the crisis between Egypt, Israel and several other countries in the Suez Canal region. Commercial traffic in the area was not only boycotted, but attacked. Ships were sunk in the region and the feeling of fear caused large freighters and oil tankers to have to go around Africa and then climb the Indian Ocean coast in the direction of their trade routes.

42:52 Once again, it was necessary to locate that reference point, so the South African Government assigned a military consignment to guard the site and a team of lighthouse operators. An electrical generation system was sent, several modern mechanisms, telecommunications, well, the communications of those years through radio and everything possible with the idea of protecting the place and maintaining a communication. The point is that it would be reported to an American television series in the 1960s that those soldiers were literally horrified of what they were living, because throughout the days that they remained on the coast, in that lighthouse, they would have experienced a real madness of paranormal appearances. First of all, they saw the British soldiers arrive. Those who had disappeared saw them arriving and entering the house. He was a dozen noisy, noisy soldiers. They heard the steps, the movement of objects, the beating of the military aces, the movement of weapons in and out throughout the night, without them seeing anything at all, but not just that.

44:08 As far as the lighthouse is concerned, it was not uncommon to see the boatman go up. In this case, the lighthouse at being, being inland, that is, not exactly inside the water, but the continental part. The lighthouse did not have interior installations, but an exterior staircase. They reported seeing people go up and down to the lighthouse on several occasions the soldiers. This time, the South Africans fired warning shots, thinking that they were intruders or that the site would have been occupied for some time, which was reasonable. Although the inhabitants of the area were people of very limited resources, they did not enter the lighthouse even when in this place they could have found a house, at least some doors, some things, did not enter the place for many years the site was feared by the inhabitants, since it was said that there lived the dead and it is that the people the final destination of those soldiers disappeared in nine hundred and fifteen, would never really be clarified.

45:12 It would never really be clear what happened if the Germans killed them. It was never clear. The fact is that by the time the Suez Canal incident occurred, the Holgar was full of ghostly apparitions to the point where one day, the captain of the team, the captain of the military brigade who had arrived at the site of the South African army, reported to the command the urgent need for replacements, since his men were in a state of nervousness, such that he feared for the safety of the same ones as some of them began to have delusions in relation to the dead. The phenomenon was quite aggressive.

45:55 It should be noted that the people who were there for more than one soras were beginning to present strange, mood swings, personality changes and aggressive tendencies and very strange attitudes, so there were even those who assured that there was a phenomenon of mass possession in this site, but not a demonic position, but a kind of temporary possession of part of those spirits that had remained on the site. The case is quite delicate in what was related at the time, since the Guardafaros himself, who was sent to operate the lighthouse along with the generators, began to suffer this type of delusions and assured for moments to see the potters, those British, enter and harass him throughout the night, wake him up and sometimes even lose the body sensation, as if his body was not his, as if at a certain moment he began to be controlled by a strange force. Finally, the matter of the Suez Canal was resolved and the lighthouse was also resolved. It ended up being an automatic lighthouse, so you didn' t have to live on the site. Eventually there was a maintenance service and so far the lighthouse continued to operate, but without anyone controlling it. Suffice it to point out that perhaps one of the last ghostly accounts of this famous lighthouse in South Africa, in Punta Arenas, would have occurred about one thousand nine hundred and eighty- six, when, due to

47:28 a very intense summer storm. The way out would have been blocked, the maintenance team that had attended the lighthouse would have to spend the night inside the lighthouse and would have to report having seen these strange figures enter and leave, the movement of objects, the noise of all the military equipment and elements and finally, having started to feel very strange, so that the next day just after the sun came out, they left the place immediately a haunted place. The matter of the lighthouses is very curious. In one part, it could be explained how their management individuals in lonely places, in quiet places where there is plenty of time. But, on the other hand, if we analyze the stories behind there are very macabre stories. The Punta Arenas case is little known. In fact, in South Africa and in general, in the territories there is not much openness about these stories, but finally, it represents that something macabre happened and left a temporary mark. As in many other places, these stories are backed by events, all of them very unusual. Anyway, it would be worth asking in some case. Mexico also has a lot of lighthouses of all kinds and even some of them have had stories very UAs goats.

49:00 You remember the Island of Love. A couple of years ago we presented a story that had to do with a famous island found in the Pacific Ocean. The last Mexican territorial point. This island was a very strange place where a series of events occurred at the beginning of the 20th century, during the Revolution, where the military garrison of the famous Island of Love was abandoned to its fate and ended with the death of virtually all men and the site turned into a colony and a very tense situation. All this was lived because the troops that were found in Iran, Porfirian troops, were abandoned when Porfirio Díaz ' s regime fell, sadly leaving those people to their fate. Lost in the Ocean and in the middle of a small island totally isolated by itself, some stories began to occur there that would be well worth taking up. That story some other time, but there was finally a story behind it. We should ask what has happened in that place, because finally there are many places where sad or tragic events leave their mark and it seems that the lighthouses are a favorite place of these apparitions. Sorry it' s not the island of love, it' s the island of passion. Excuse me, I was wrong about the term, but it would be worth returning to that story, because it was one of those very shocking stories. Thank you very much for this correction and well, a thousand apologies for misgiving the data of the passion.

50:34 We did a series of programs about it. What a mistake on my part. But usually in these places there are macabre stories. But maybe one of the last places you could imagine it would be in Miami. Miami has a series of islets known as callos, which are a series of truly scary small islets, as on stormy nights they are not seen in some of these. There are small lighthouses that are currently automatic but were once guarded. They had wardens. This site was truly disquieting, as some of these lighthouses were in pieces of land of just about three hundred or four hundred square meters, that is, the size of a current land. That place was where the warden ate and worked frequently. These places were visited by boats departing from the coast carrying supplies. Seeing that they were all well, that there were no problems and eventually also changing the rangers to prevent them from losing their judgment, as staying on an islet for more than a couple of weeks was considered very risky. Interestingly, in the 1940s something was also happening there. In one of these Florida calluses, in one of the lighthouses marked with the zeros nús forty- seven, it happened that the warden completely lost his judgment and began

52:05 to speak not of ghosts, but of omnis. Interestingly, it was not yet the time of the boom of euphology and, however, this subject claimed to have seen luminous flying objects come out of the waters on repeated occasions that made a kind of dance, rhythmic and cadentious movement around the lighthouse. He was dismissed because he was considered sick of his faculties or had lost his mind. When the new warden arrives within a few days, he reported exactly the same. Finally, and a few months later, strangely and as is often the case with the American navy, the lighthouse was shut down. It was stopped because the rangers reported continuing to see the lights coming out of the water and making a complex dance, a kind of rhythmic movement around the lighthouse, fearing that at some point there would be some other problem. The lighthouse was turned off and continues to date to be turned off. He did not take up again and although today, with global positioning systems, the famous GPS, navigation charts, ultrasound systems. All this is very difficult for a boat to impact the reefs, but at the time the lighthouse had to be abandoned due to the insistent presence of flying saucers. In that case, although it was not a paranormal phenomenon, it was quite a disquieting phenomenon. Other places,

53:39 well, there' s an endless collection of them. The stories focus particularly on the north coasts, both the Newfoundland peninsula and the English region. There are many stories in this regard, particularly places where there were murders and crimes where the arrival of people or or strange phenomena is reported. The most particular case that has caught my attention was that of South Africa, of Punta Arenas, because of the problem that people began to suffer from a phenomenon of possession. Literally they changed the personality, acted strange, everything as if they had been literally possessed by the spirits of those soldiers who were presumed to have been killed by enemy forces. The remains were never found, but this was not so difficult, as the coast was an ideal reservoir of corpses. In addition, it is a coast full of sharks, so they may well have been thrown into the water and, as a result, devoured by sharks, they could also have been killed by natives, taken inland and eaten by beasts.

54:45 The region also had dangerous wildlife in that area, so any story could have been fulfilled in that place as it was, the stories of guardian and ghosts are there. Maybe at some point you know something and you dare to talk to us, so what did you think? I already tell you that part, practically anywhere, there' s a good ghost story. Many of them are hard to find. It is not something that is achieved regularly, but they are very interesting and give us the idea that there is a world parallel to ours, a world in which, apparently and as Arthur se Clark would say, thirty ghosts for each person. Yeah, the number of dead people that would be surrounding us. If this were true and if it could be proven, it would be literally overwhelming. Why a particular place serves as a bridge or as a point where it manifests itself is something that has not been answered. Why not everywhere, why not all of us see them. Well, that already differs in each case, but in certain places it seems that, no matter who arrives, everyone sees or feels or somehow perceives the paranormal phenomenon. You are at home right now, you are alone, because, well, loneliness is a very opportune time to perceive these phenomena. At least,

56:17 in the vast majority of the events that I have known or have told me at some point, people are alone, so enjoy your clear night if you can very good night. Follow us also on our YouTube channel stories from the dark side