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Welcome to The Otherworld Patreon. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This week we have a bonus episode

for you that comes all the way from South America. It was sent in by a woman named Valentina,

and she is a psychologist based in Chile. This is an interesting story because, well, if you've heard a lot of our episodes,

you've probably noticed a pattern specifically with the darker ones. And that pattern is that

people dealing with significant trauma or instability seem to report encounters with some kind of negative presence.

There are many beliefs across the world about various entities being drawn to or feeding off negativity,

or the negativity and trauma can open somebody up and make them vulnerable.

Valentina was actually living a very happy life outside of her work, even though she did enjoy

her work at the time.

But her job does involve helping children that are in incredibly bad situations.

I think she sees, hears, and has to help people with some truly awful things.

Normally, that's something she's able to do and something she loves to do,

except one day her and her coworker were working on a particular case

that they think might have brought something strange into their workplace.

I'm going to let her take it from here.

I'm just going to call this episode Valentina.

You're listening to The Other World Patreon. So my name is Valentina. I'm from Chile. I grew up in Santiago, the capital of Chile.

Chile is like a very southern country in South America. I've always lived in Santiago. My family

grew up here. I went to middle school, high school, and the university here in Santiago.

Sile is a very thin and long country, so we have in the north a very different climate,

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