Speaker 1: Greens and Ben Benniel's fellows Sears of the Dark.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Dallyreo. Welcome to Noctorno. Tales from the shadows.
Speaker 1: By the enchanted flame of this fire, we transcend time
Speaker 1: and space to step into the chilling Lord and legends
Speaker 1: of Latin America. Stories passed down through the years and
Speaker 1: retold with a twists, but be worn for as we
Speaker 1: cross over the other side, you may never know what
Speaker 1: nightmarerow waits.
Speaker 2: I do hope you're prepared quickly. Now we have a
Speaker 2: schedule to keep.
Speaker 1: A train station operating near the Mexico Guatemala Morta out
Speaker 1: In this untamed region, a new railway becomes mans Lady's attempt.
Speaker 2: To overcome the wilderness.
Speaker 1: On other stretchs of land, that might be a simple task,
Speaker 1: but legend has it.
Speaker 2: Within these woods resides.
Speaker 1: A guardian as Sisimite, an ancient ferocious beast standing nine
Speaker 1: feet doll Some believe it to be a harbinger of death,
Speaker 1: others a protector of life. But the lines between good
Speaker 1: and bad are often colored by perception, and even the
Speaker 1: most well intentioned dean can sometimes blow up in your face,
Speaker 1: as the conductor and engineer may soon come DeFi quite
Speaker 1: all the time, join us and climb aboard, but don't
Speaker 1: get too comfortable.
Speaker 2: And based on the ballas a tale of LCC.
Speaker 3: So basically, what they're doing now is replacing the old
Speaker 3: rate line which hasn't been using like forever.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. Right, and we keep hearing a lot
Speaker 4: about progress and projections, but what about the indigenous families
Speaker 4: being displaced, not to mention all the environmental damage.
Speaker 5: And that's just with normal data day operation exactly. But
Speaker 5: what if this train explodes, which does happen? Do you
Speaker 5: know how much compustible cargo they can carry, even trainy
Speaker 5: train cars with equified GUS detonate, it would be the
Speaker 5: same energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't understand how that is.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: People in the rail industry literally call them bomb trains.
Speaker 4: So yeah, of course there are going to be protests,
Speaker 4: and and then there's the recent disappearances.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't even get me started. I'll just say this,
Speaker 3: believe what you want. Well, there's a reason this israel
Speaker 3: and hasn't been used for a hundred years.
Speaker 6: Exactly.
Speaker 7: Are you.
Speaker 2: Give me?
Speaker 8: This is starting to feel dangerous?
Speaker 9: Morning Margaret, does this sound bad to you?
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound good if you're an engineer.
Speaker 8: Fix it.
Speaker 7: Coffee falls under the conductor's purview, Jacob.
Speaker 8: I think this thing needs a priest. They needs a sign.
Speaker 8: Shouldn't have coffee, should go back to sleep.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a thought.
Speaker 8: Morning forenam morning. It's ten at night. That explains why
Speaker 8: I'm so tired. How was your shift? I would worry
Speaker 8: more about your own shift, especially tonight. This again, Well,
Speaker 8: you are riding the ghost track, Cannel. No one calls
Speaker 8: it that.
Speaker 5: Anymore.
Speaker 8: Have you heard about all the stories that.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes, we all know the stories.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, But recently I've been hearing a bunch
Speaker 8: of new ones about people going missing along the railways.
Speaker 9: What do you mean.
Speaker 8: Some workers and protesters just up and disappeared. But one guy,
Speaker 8: a breakman I think, was found torn to pieces. Okay,
Speaker 8: I did hear about that, But wasn't it in some
Speaker 8: remote area? And where do you think the ghost track runs? Huh?
Speaker 8: And it'll be the first time in what one hundred years?
Speaker 7: Fat it's all new tracks that they.
Speaker 8: Relapse, new track, but same old fantasmas, same aspantos. But
Speaker 8: the one you really have to worry about. Is the Guardian.
Speaker 10: The Guardian I'll be looking for is just all you
Speaker 10: talk about front of that ghost stories?
Speaker 8: Just given my pass downs, Hammon.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure what it is about this part of
Speaker 9: the world.
Speaker 11: Listen, these are just rumors being spread around by proton
Speaker 11: protesters mind you that may try to interfere with our runs.
Speaker 11: And I bet some of them aren't even really mission,
Speaker 11: just some tactics to scare the people foolish enough to
Speaker 11: believe them.
Speaker 8: Whatever you say, And how.
Speaker 9: Are you two doing? Ready for the night?
Speaker 12: I am feels like a covert mission.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, why are we making this run that night?
Speaker 7: I get moving up the schedule, But.
Speaker 9: Just the precaution.
Speaker 11: The hope is we can avoid anyont wanted interactions this way.
Speaker 11: We don't want anything to happen to our brand new
Speaker 11: train now, will be.
Speaker 9: Damn man, Dad about that?
Speaker 8: I've been meaning to ask you.
Speaker 9: Would you say that the company spared no expense, No
Speaker 9: more Jurassic Park references?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 9: This is in the movie. This is real life.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's good luck. Say it.
Speaker 12: Say it?
Speaker 8: No you Margaret, you heard them? Real life finds a way.
Speaker 2: Nice God.
Speaker 8: See, this is why no one likes to work with
Speaker 8: you too. Can you please move on to another movie?
Speaker 5: Never ever?
Speaker 9: All right, getting back on track here.
Speaker 11: There have also been reports of up ticking stowaways, so
Speaker 11: keep an eye out for that as well.
Speaker 13: Is that related to the protests?
Speaker 9: Not sure, but it would have surprised me.
Speaker 8: Sure, worry about some malnourished migrants instead of the monstrosities
Speaker 8: and demonios that inhabit the forest, especially at night. Who
Speaker 8: could have saw that coming?
Speaker 7: Okay, but why do you even ask for advice if
Speaker 7: you're not going to listen?
Speaker 8: I listen.
Speaker 6: Not according to your wife.
Speaker 2: I did what she said.
Speaker 8: I listened to the Bean Chip podcast.
Speaker 12: I get it.
Speaker 8: Okay, the protesters don't want the train train bad protest?
Speaker 12: Good?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 7: How are you this tense?
Speaker 14: Listen?
Speaker 2: Why are the protests happen?
Speaker 8: Why you can serve it? You know people are getting displaced?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 3: Why else?
Speaker 15: I don't know?
Speaker 8: The environment?
Speaker 7: Maybe it's because some trains like the one we're on
Speaker 7: right now are bomb trains.
Speaker 8: So bad for the environment, No bad for you, y'all.
Speaker 8: Go ook at y'all.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna I'm gonna throw you overboard. You know
Speaker 7: what happens to you? To us if this train explodes.
Speaker 12: Well, well, well, oh oh wait, so she's upset that
Speaker 12: I could wait explode him.
Speaker 7: Poor woman, I'll say a prayer for her.
Speaker 6: Uh that time already, huh yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 2: Whoa, what the hell?
Speaker 15: What what happened?
Speaker 8: So something just started across the track?
Speaker 15: Mhm but a deer maybe?
Speaker 16: Wait?
Speaker 7: What what's with a scared look? Oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: don't tell me. You let Ferdinand get in your head?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 8: No, I just it was a big deer.
Speaker 13: You did, you totally did?
Speaker 8: And someone at this place gives me the creeps. That's
Speaker 8: a normal response to the unknown unknown.
Speaker 13: This isn't bad.
Speaker 7: Yeah, here's a checklist. Let's go.
Speaker 9: Come on, Margaret. Okay, but back to what I was saying.
Speaker 8: We talked about the whole bomb train thing a few times.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I mean I thought i' in my case.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, making your case doesn't mean her feelings change.
Speaker 2: Because why doesn't she just say that, Wow? She probably did? Well,
Speaker 2: how would I know?
Speaker 8: I don't listen?
Speaker 7: You really are hopeless?
Speaker 8: I mean a you know, I mean, I'm gonna this
Speaker 8: fuse is flashing.
Speaker 9: I need to replace a host.
Speaker 7: Well, so much for brand new.
Speaker 8: Okay, sure, the job can be dangerous, but that's just
Speaker 8: the nature of what we do.
Speaker 2: It's the cost of progress.
Speaker 16: And I'm sorry, but human progress and job creation are
Speaker 16: more important than a few trees.
Speaker 7: Gee, the lack of humility for nature that's being displayed here.
Speaker 2: Staggers me, I did it.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, on points for that quote, But on, Margaret,
Speaker 5: how can.
Speaker 7: You be so misinformed?
Speaker 13: All right, coming on.
Speaker 7: Progress is not being made here, and more jobs are
Speaker 7: being automated than ever. All we're really doing is lining
Speaker 7: the pockets have already rich assholes, and all at the
Speaker 7: expense of indigenous locals and nature. Now, it's why, why
Speaker 7: what I'm thinking about hanging it up?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh mam, miss, you're not You're not serious?
Speaker 9: Right in city?
Speaker 13: I am.
Speaker 7: This work and this work schedule is why Manny left.
Speaker 7: Now the kids are off to college or in the
Speaker 7: United States, and them too. They've really been on me
Speaker 7: about the protests.
Speaker 9: So I'm not in Margaret, let my gingus.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna have solo.
Speaker 7: Come on, all right, let's go, come on, let's get
Speaker 7: back to the cab.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 7: Maybe we're on the wrong side of the good lie.
Speaker 5: We are not at the whim of nature anymore, Margaret,
Speaker 5: for better or for worse, we have conquered it.
Speaker 2: That's what this railway is.
Speaker 8: Human progress.
Speaker 2: Man is the APAs.
Speaker 8: Man is above.
Speaker 7: Nature now until nature retaliates and woman inherits the earth.
Speaker 8: How dare you use doctor Sadler against me?
Speaker 3: You had it coming? Is that?
Speaker 7: Huh?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 8: Ship?
Speaker 14: There's a tree down on the track.
Speaker 8: Okay, what do we do?
Speaker 12: Run through it?
Speaker 10: Part of balm tree?
Speaker 14: Don't you understand?
Speaker 18: Get Freddy get erchanse stop.
Speaker 7: Hold on your butts.
Speaker 2: Oh what the hell?
Speaker 8: You see that? Someone standing out on the track?
Speaker 7: Who made it?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 18: What did you say before?
Speaker 8: Chris warned I saw someone standing over that tree?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 7: There is literally nothing for miles who could survive?
Speaker 2: Way out here?
Speaker 8: Control? Come in control?
Speaker 9: Control?
Speaker 8: Do you copy?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Boy, see we're too far out.
Speaker 8: You got an alert out in the eunix panel.
Speaker 2: Obviously what is it?
Speaker 8: Might be a hos er, a knuckle, I'll check. Tell
Speaker 8: me to put the boots on the ballast.
Speaker 10: Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Maybe take your pepper
Speaker 10: spray just.
Speaker 15: In case.
Speaker 8: Bird man's and who's head now? Yeah?
Speaker 18: Or don't take it and mauled by a rabid deer.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 12: I'm taking the walkie okay, good Ye.
Speaker 7: It's black out here, so I can see that.
Speaker 2: Don't you mean you can't see it? And so.
Speaker 7: Looks like it's going to be about ten cars back?
Speaker 8: Copy? Hey, I think I see something?
Speaker 7: You found the problem?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I see movement?
Speaker 15: Wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 5: What do you see?
Speaker 8: I'm gonna check it out?
Speaker 13: What is he doing?
Speaker 3: Jacob?
Speaker 2: Jacob? Come in? I heard a scream?
Speaker 10: Are you okay?
Speaker 14: Respond?
Speaker 2: Why aren't you answering?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 18: Engine, you're to conductor.
Speaker 8: I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 16: We have a thoway going on a copy?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: So what was that?
Speaker 15: Screen?
Speaker 8: I remember sprayed them and I got myself too.
Speaker 9: Sorry? Sorry too?
Speaker 12: Was okay?
Speaker 10: But are you good?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they're complying.
Speaker 13: Thank goodness for that?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 10: Well jesus, okay that that wasn't a deer, Jacob. I
Speaker 10: think I just saw maybe a bear or something big
Speaker 10: running towards you. Copy?
Speaker 2: What what what you saw?
Speaker 10: There was a large animal. You need to get inside
Speaker 10: one of the cars or somewhere high.
Speaker 8: I can't see anything, like my eyes are on fire.
Speaker 10: Doesn't get inside a car, do you hear me.
Speaker 5: Jake up.
Speaker 10: Response Jacob respond engineer to conductor.
Speaker 13: Come on, Jacob, Okay, okay, fuck me. Better not be
Speaker 13: a bear. M god, diner, it's dark. Okay, bear, stay
Speaker 13: on the other side. Don't come over here. Hey, I'm
Speaker 13: I'm coming to you. Do you copy?
Speaker 14: God?
Speaker 12: Jacob?
Speaker 13: She's something Okay, chit.
Speaker 18: Hook okay eight nine, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 16: Jesus, there is something out there.
Speaker 18: Yeah, that's what I came to tell you.
Speaker 7: I think it might be a bear.
Speaker 18: There are no bears in this region, so you're the story.
Speaker 15: Hey, what you're doing.
Speaker 18: It's pretty dangerous.
Speaker 12: You know that.
Speaker 3: So is your train.
Speaker 15: But right now, I think all the danger is out there.
Speaker 15: What oh god, it's like, oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: It's here.
Speaker 15: It's here.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 15: It has many names?
Speaker 13: What does he.
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 13: No no, no no no no no no no no no
Speaker 13: no no.
Speaker 15: He's a guard kid and died. We protect this place
Speaker 15: from intruders without mercy.
Speaker 2: What a guardian?
Speaker 7: Why does that sound?
Speaker 15: Ah?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 16: Look, look, uh contact contact.
Speaker 5: I know this area has a reputation, but they're just rumors, okay, folks,
Speaker 5: stories five thousands Okay.
Speaker 15: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. Does that
Speaker 15: sound like a rumor to you? Why did you have
Speaker 15: to use this truck? We thought you were still choosing
Speaker 15: the temporary route.
Speaker 10: So you're one of the protesters.
Speaker 15: Fuck gorilla? No no, no, you see it, you see
Speaker 15: we get here.
Speaker 2: This is insane.
Speaker 16: I don't know. I don't know what that was, but
Speaker 16: but I don't think it can get in here. I
Speaker 16: think we're okay unless it unless it figures.
Speaker 2: Out out of open doors.
Speaker 5: Take a feeling.
Speaker 11: Hey, sorry, sorry, maybe it's gone.
Speaker 13: It's too dark to see anything.
Speaker 15: We can't stay here, but where were we gonna do?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 18: Hey, maybe just stay away from the door and the windows.
Speaker 15: I can't believe this happened.
Speaker 9: Yeah, ma'am, Hey, I said sat again. It's gonna be okay.
Speaker 9: We just stay calm, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm not there.
Speaker 9: Just take a deep breath.
Speaker 2: There you go. You know that's a.
Speaker 15: That's actually helping.
Speaker 2: Now we just need to.
Speaker 8: Figure out how we're going.
Speaker 6: Don't no, no, no, no, no, oh no way?
Speaker 9: What I keep?
Speaker 2: What I keep?
Speaker 8: Next car?
Speaker 2: Next walk?
Speaker 1: Come on?
Speaker 12: How can you?
Speaker 8: What the fuck? What the actual fuck was that?
Speaker 13: I don't know what.
Speaker 18: Balter h balter out like it was nothing. We can't
Speaker 18: stay in this car.
Speaker 9: Okay, where did we go?
Speaker 2: I think the cab? The cab.
Speaker 8: Do you think that'll be safe.
Speaker 18: It's not safer than here. Okay, we'll run the train
Speaker 18: and rivers. Maybe we pick up enough speed to get away.
Speaker 8: What fucking reality is this? I can't believe Ferdinand was
Speaker 8: fucking right?
Speaker 13: Whoa mock?
Speaker 6: Go?
Speaker 2: Fuck o? Fucking chug it?
Speaker 16: Okay, okay, okay, look you ready?
Speaker 8: Come on?
Speaker 6: Come on, I have you damn it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get it.
Speaker 5: Come on, hurry, look.
Speaker 3: It, look it.
Speaker 10: Okay, look dance.
Speaker 15: System, stick rubber.
Speaker 7: Okay, try the radio.
Speaker 8: Control, come in control, Fox, come up and help me.
Speaker 3: Come keep trying once again.
Speaker 13: Movie.
Speaker 14: We might have a sickle.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I don't move.
Speaker 8: Come on, did you see the size of that thing?
Speaker 14: I didn't get a good look at it.
Speaker 9: I don't think you can sit down here.
Speaker 14: Oh god, I hope it's true.
Speaker 2: Can you hear anything?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: But I think I can smell something.
Speaker 5: Oh come on, is that smoke?
Speaker 13: Oh my god?
Speaker 18: If there is a fire on this train, I don't
Speaker 18: know what's worse.
Speaker 13: What if we do?
Speaker 18: It's been long enough, the train should be ready to roll. Okay,
Speaker 18: if we can get moving and get away from that thing,
Speaker 18: we can figure out the fire at start.
Speaker 9: You think it's gone.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but I don't hear anything.
Speaker 9: Okay, look.
Speaker 2: It stuck.
Speaker 14: Help me, okay, just a just a little more. No,
Speaker 14: it's a fire, but it's definitely a fire. What's not
Speaker 14: down yet?
Speaker 13: Down?
Speaker 2: I can't believe that.
Speaker 16: I want to apologize for all the times I didn't listen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not sure we have that kind of time.
Speaker 13: Jacob.
Speaker 8: You know you're the best engineer.
Speaker 5: I never thank you ever.
Speaker 12: Done for me.
Speaker 14: Oh, I never thought of this job.
Speaker 12: It's fun.
Speaker 3: Or enjoya believing that, then I get.
Speaker 6: Stuck with you.
Speaker 3: The last few years.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's it's pretty good run, Jacob.
Speaker 8: Thank you the best of my career.
Speaker 2: I get something right?
Speaker 13: God, you know what Jacob definitely got down.
Speaker 7: Him made my decision.
Speaker 8: After a careful consideration. Margaret, Yes, so have I.
Speaker 3: Well, the explosion devastated wildlife and started a massive fire.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is exactly what we were talking about.
Speaker 4: And can you believe the company is blaming protesters?
Speaker 9: Ridiculous?
Speaker 3: This was always going to happen one way or the other.
Speaker 3: These bump trains are just too dangerous.
Speaker 4: What matters most is that the train project has been
Speaker 4: suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 3: Obviously said that the people love their lives.
Speaker 4: But oh, there was one survivor allegedly, she apparently sustained
Speaker 4: some non explosion related injuries.
Speaker 3: Yes, hopefully we'll learn more about that, right, But again,
Speaker 3: I'm just glad that there can now be some semblance
Speaker 3: of peace in the region, and may it.
Speaker 4: Last another one hundred years.
Speaker 8: She see me there?
Speaker 2: What like us Eata?
Speaker 1: Was it a vicious monster out for blood or simply
Speaker 1: a noble creature.
Speaker 2: Defending its home.
Speaker 1: It seems no matter who you ask, one thing for
Speaker 1: certain there was something evil in the forest that night.
Speaker 2: Until that's time.
Speaker 17: Nocturno Tales from the Shadows was produced by Sonoro in
Speaker 17: partnership with I Heartsmichael Dura Podcast Network, Produced and directed
Speaker 17: by Luis Eduardo Castillo, developed and produced by Bettina Lopez,
Speaker 17: the executive produced by Connel Byrne and Giselle Benzies for
Speaker 17: iHeart and Camilla Victoriano and Joshua Weinstein for Sonoro. This
Speaker 17: episode was written by Elaija Srinana. Performances in this episode
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