Twelve Strange Stories - Best of Vol 9
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here is an email that I received from a man some time ago and he lives in Chile, South America, |
| 0:22.4 | Chile, South America. He challenges me. He challenges me to pronounce. He said I'd love to |
| 0:33.1 | hear you pronouncing some of the following names I have in this story and I think this is |
| 0:37.1 | a ploy to get me to screw up because he doesn't have much faith in me that I can pronounce these words |
| 0:42.0 | and I probably can't but I think it's a game here where he's he's going to play this around his |
| 0:47.6 | friends and they're all going to laugh and laugh at me but you know what I ain't scared I ain't |
| 0:52.4 | scared of it I'll give it a whirl and so here's what he writes I live in Chile, South America we are |
| 1:00.4 | a long thin country trapped between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean and because of that |
| 1:06.4 | we have a huge variety of folklore about mythical creatures and here's where he he challenges me to |
| 1:14.0 | pronounce these words and there's other words in this story too I'm going to go them all the |
| 1:17.4 | world I could spend much time writing about them the Alessanto, the Cuero, the caletje and the |
| 1:26.1 | tralco, tralco I think I got those right probably not they are traditional stories that old folks |
| 1:32.8 | tell to kids sometimes as a scary story before sending them to bed and in some cases as a warning |
| 1:41.2 | my story was told as a true fact by a friend who was prone to deviate from the truth or he's a |
| 1:48.8 | myth-omaniac and less kind words he tells the most outrageous stories yet he is a good-hearted he's |
| 1:56.2 | a great cook and because of his wild stories he's fun to hang around with all that said I actually |
| 2:05.1 | believe that the story I'm about to write is true and the story goes as follows George our |
| 2:13.5 | protagonist is the son of a worker in a farm in southern Chile he was a hardworking and diligent man |
| 2:21.7 | who was sixteen years old when this story happened he balanced school and work laboring on the |
| 2:27.8 | farm by helping his father and he was reputed for being brave not being afraid of any man or beast |
| 2:34.9 | he would go out hunting leaving while it was still dark walking through the thick forest of the |
| 2:40.4 | pines and the native trees before sunrise the farm he worked on was divided between crops of wheat |
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