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Today's story is about a group of friends who travel to this supposedly haunted abandoned

town up in the mountains in Spain, and when they get there, the town totally lives up to the hype.

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but make sure you blast it on super high heat, so you just burn the outside of the 16th, 1991, a 36-year-old man named Enrique Martinez bent down, pulled out his pocket knife,

and he carefully cut through the stem of a mushroom that was growing right next to a mossy log.

And then after freeing this mushroom, he put it inside of his wicker basket

with the other mushrooms he had collected in the area.

And then Enrique stood up and just took a minute

to take in the unbelievable view

of this lush green valley right below him.

Enrique was out mushroom hunting

along with his wife Anna and their two friends, Jorge and Sophia, who were dating. And where they were mushroom hunting, along with his wife Anna and their two friends, Jorge and Sophia,

who were dating. And where they were mushroom hunting was near this old abandoned town called

La Musara, which is located up in the mountains of northeastern Spain. It had been Jorge's idea

to come to this area and explore. Jorge had heard all these crazy stories about La Musara,

about how it was haunted, and there was all this creepy folklore surrounding this town. As for

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