Cecilia

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet. “I think that we are all aliens until we find our communities.” This episode was originally released in 2019. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, invitations to virtual events, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	This episode contains references to sexual violence. Please use discretion.
0:36.5	When I was a child, I thought I was an extraterrestrial, that I was a UFO.
0:40.3	And I told my grandmother that it was a really funny story.
0:44.3	And...
0:45.3	What did she say when you said you were you?
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:48.3	My brother told me that they found me in a railroad, right?
0:52.3	One day we were crossing a railroad and my brother told me, that's
0:56.7	where we found you. And mom took you with us because you were naked on the railroad as a baby.
1:04.5	And around the same time, I was kicked out of the bathroom in the girls' bathroom in school.
1:12.0	And I'm from an area of Argentina
1:15.2	where there's a lot of UFO activity in the 70s.
1:18.9	So I put two and two together,
1:20.9	and I went to my grandma and I said,
1:22.4	Grandma, I think I know what happened.
1:25.5	I am an alien that I was left by mistake here,
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