Beyond the Supernatural: Occult History, #17

By Marcelino Requejo

This book gathers a hundred of unusual events that have taken place in Spain and have been personally investigated by the author during the last decade. In all cases, the protagonists are those who describe their experiences, such as encounters with dead relatives and the messages they convey, terrifying reakles of diabolic dolls, apparitions of ghostly monks on Spanish roads, encounters with entities that seem to have emerged from other dimensions or impossible coincidences, among many other supernatural events.
The research work carried out by Marcelino Requejo includes photographs, drawings and illustrations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cydonia
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071551066

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Marcellin Requejo

First edition, October 2017

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BEYOND

DE

THE SUPERNATURAL

Marcelino Requejo

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To Inma, Chus, Isabel,

Daniel and Adrian.

Índice

Prólogo, por Miguel Pedrero

Simplemente, un buscador de la verdad......................... 9

Introducción

Sin respuestas ..................................................................  13

Capítulo 1

El enigma de Taboada ......................................................17

Capítulo 2

Lluvias infernales ...............................................................25

Capítulo 3

Visitas inesperadas ...........................................................37

Capítulo 4

Ajuste de cuentas ..............................................................61

Capítulo 5

Muñecos diabólicos ......................................................... 71

Capítulo 6

Seres imposibles ..............................................................  89

Capítulo 7

Monjes sin convento....................................................103

Capítulo 8

ver para creer........................................................... 129

La criatura de A Cacha-Corzáns .................................... 138

¡Niños, venid.....................................................................143

Cornucopia .......................................................................145

Dopplegänger............................................................150

El velatorio .............................................................  162

La dama de Vilaesteva ....................................................170

Conclusiones

La universalidad del fenómeno .....................................183

Agradecimientos .............................................................193

Prologue

Just,

a seeker of truth

I MEET MARCELINO IN 1994, during a meeting of researchers of the UFO phenomenon that was held insomewhere in Galicia that I don't remember now. We exchanged phones there, and a few months later, we were already sharing adventures behind the all sorts of anomalous events. During these 23 years (it seems lie, but yes, it's been 23 years!), Marcellin has my disposition some of the most interesting cases I've had the opportunity to investigate.

At a time when I was freelancing and always broke, good old Marce (as we call him friends) gave me access to cases and testimonies to that I could publish them and make some money with it to move on. He never asked me for anything in return. He never even wanted to sign the reports with me. Because the the author of this book does not want to work in any communication (or lack thereof), nor does he seek fame or recognition. He is only interested in knowing the truth.

To conscientiously investigate each case, away from the spotlight.

By interviewing over and over again to the witnesses, reflecting on what count, continually returning to the places where their gave up those anomalous facts, looking for new testimony. With no other pretense than to acquire knowledge and enjoy the search.

Together with Marce I have enjoyed some of the best moments of my life. Because there is nothing that makes us enjoy more than going out into the world looking for testimonials about strange events. In the end, the witnesses end up becoming friends and it is not unusual for us all to end up late at night chatting about the divine and the human. That doesn't pay for anything. It's a feeling that's hard to put into words.

I like Marce and I share that feeling and that need of searching, we tend to lose track of time. Hey, Miguelito, it's already six in the morning, it seems I hear Marce telling me while we're in front of in front of a coffee, discussing the latest events we've collected on the ground. It doesn't matter how you respond, because my friend is on the loose:

Well, we had the last coffee, and there's no end to it. But those of us who love him could not allow so many stories will be forgotten in a drawer, so in 2006 we convinced him to write a book. Marcellin said that he would, even though we didn't believe him. Months later I had on my table the manuscript. It was published by this same publisher under the UFO title: Top Secret (2007), and became a success. Years later, in 2014 and also in Cydonia, he surprised us with Marian apparitions: the definitive answer, one of the best books I've ever read. And now, in 2017, finally, his most anticipated work is now in the bookstores: this one he holds in his hands. It's the result of research the author's most exciting work in the last decade on a series of events that defy reason. These are very extremes that could indicate the existence of beings from other dimensions that would have the capacity to penetrate our three-dimensional universe.

It's a reading to enjoy, imagining that we are one night camping with some friends, telling stories of apparitions around a fire. If they start you will not be able to leave this book until it is finished, I assure you.

Because Marce, aside from writing beautifully, he's the best at research. For my part, I hope to continue learning from him for many years to come, sharing adventures and misfortunes, discoveries and disappointments in this troubled world of strange phenomena.

MIGUEL PEDRERO

Introduction

No answers

"The true mystery of the world

is the visible, not the invisible."

OSCAR WILDE

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In his Book 'DAIMONIC REALITY', the English writer Patrick Harpur states, A book about apparitions and visions is always surrounded by certain climate of discomfort. These are not respectable subjects. They're just mentioned by what we could call representative

officials of our culture, such as academics, churches or the prestige press. He's right. I'm fully aware that the practice all the stories in this work will not be credible; moreover, they will be entirely rejected by our logical and rational mind, which will tend to label them immediately as visions or hallucinations. What is presented here are situations experienced in the first of these is the fact that the people of the region have had to face a series of unexpected phenomena in the course of their daily lives that are worthy of the described as surreal. Precisely because of this, the very interested parties have been reluctant to narrate them, aware of the dire consequences for families, society and work that it would take to dare to cheerfully air such unusual experiences.

As a result, many of the testimonies that come continuation have not been easy to obtain. However, the the simple fact that some people have decided to sharing their disconcerting experiences, provided they remain absolutely anonymous, should now constitute

in its own right a little in its favour, as it completely destroys the alleged desire for notoriety that is so frivolously attributed to witnesses. In the following pages I limit myself to presenting the experiences of the protagonists as they have transmitted them to me, trying at all times to follow the verses of the poet José Zorrilla in the dedication that heads his volume of Poetry:

"The people told me

without notes or clarifications:

with the same expressions

I tell the people myself."

One must understand the difficulty involved in trying to develop a rational and definitive response that explains this is especially true when we are not able to they arrive so extremely drenched in that annoying, uncomfortable, and gooey surrealist dye.

It would be wise not to succumb to the temptation to wield the typical explanation based on the simplistic argument that it was all the result of a hallucination, a dream, a joke or a invention of the witnesses, without first analyzing and pondering in detail, and in the right measure, the details, pronouncements and explanations contained in their stories, as well as the context general in which the events took place. It's common sense that no one in their right mind would think such absurd stories in the childish hope that the rest of the mortals accept them as facts real.

On the other hand, the casuistry about this kind of phenomena is more abundant than we could imagine, but its diffusion is completely overshadowed by the thick veil from the fear of ridicule and what they'll say the reader will discover stories very similar to those in this book, as he or she will be able to find out about the people around him or her book.

Even if we don't acknowledge it publicly, most of us do, at some point in our lives, either individually or company of other people, we have witnessed some amazing and strange episode for which we haven't been able to still find a convincing explanation.

When it comes to investigating all the anomalous phenomenology figure compiled in these pages, we have tried to verify, as far as possible, that the witnesses were not under the effects of chemical agents such as narcotics or psychotropic, or exposed to radiation from strong fields that could interfere with and alter the electrical or chemical impulses in the brain synapse.

I have also rejected events in which the witness may have been a victim of neurological episodes such as photosensitive epilepsy, or seen certain images under form of hypnogogic hallucinations, which usually occur when an individual is in the intermediate phase between sleep and consciousness.

Everything has also been suppressed story that could explain the movements of shadows and lights that tend to manifest themselves in the peripheral vision of the eye, and those others whose origin may lie in any eye condition or pathology.

Therefore, all of the following were excluded from this exhibition those accounts of anomalous experiences that did not offer the minimum guarantees of credibility required, if it can the term credibility assurance is used when referring to the investigation and exposure of testimonies as complex and puzzling as those that follow. Probably some anonymous reader will offer us the most sensible answer to all this when you identify your own personal experience – never confessed - with any of the enigmatic events that were exposed in this work.

In his commentary on Plato's Republic, the Greek philosopher Proclo states: In all initiations and mysteries - dreams and true visions - the gods display numerous shapes and appear in a variety of figures. A few times, in fact, they present a shapeless irradiation of themselves; other times, this light is configured according to human form and, in occasions, he moves on to a different figure. Is it perhaps the hand of the gods that handles these absurd phenomena -as Proclo points out- or are we dealing with simple delusions, inventions or hallucinations of witnesses? Are they, are these anomalies the result of complex physical processes that science has not yet determined? Be that as it may, everything seems to indicate that certain entities from some unimaginable dimension, are bent on playing with human beings to prevent us from burying our increasingly weakened capacity for wonder. Issue the reader your own verdict.

Chapter 1

The enigma of Taboada

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"Men of science suspect something

about this world, but they ignore it

almost everything  . Wise men 

interpret the dreams, and the gods laugh."

H. P. LOVECRAFT

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A cloudy spring evening in 1957, around six, two nine year-old boys were playing distractedly in a small plot located in the outskirts of the town of Taboada in Lugo. For some time they had adopted that land as their favorite place of recreation.

A quiet environment, ideal for camping at ease in the company of other friends with whom, from time to time, they met to kick a worn-out rubber ball to death.  However, that afternoon the usual running buddies did not and so Antonio and Carlos decided to avoid any hint of boredom by getting involved immediately in a game of marbles. The game kept the kids absorbed and excited for several minutes until, suddenly, Antonio perceived a kind of lump that was moving slowly next to a nearby house.

In spite of the many years that have passed, Antonio explained, "I assure you that what I experienced that afternoon was engraved in my memory for life. It has been a long time since I lost track of Carlos, as we both left Taboada for our parents' work purposes. However, I'm sure that he, more than I, will not have forgotten it either...

That afternoon we were bent over playing marbles when, suddenly, I thought I saw out of the corner of my eye, on my right, that someone was walking, but not at ground level but higher up, like through the air... I quickly turned my head to the old house was located about a hundred feet to our right, and then I saw them. They were moving on the roof of a small brick shed attached to the house. I was stunned.  I stood up slowly and said: -Hey, look at those guys!

Without getting up, Carlos turned his head towards the shed and with an astonishing serenity answered me:

-Ah, yes... They are always around. I have seen them more times. The truth is that the scene was most absurd; never in my life I saw something like that again... From the wall of that house left, one after the other, as if in a single line, some tall men, dressed like astronauts or beekeepers today, with white helmets and suits, but wearing dark boots. They walked very slowly on the roof of the shed, as if in slow motion, with one arm extended forward, carrying something like a lantern in his hand.

That facade of the house had no doors or windows, but the guys would come out of there, out of the wall itself, out of nowhere. It's like if they materialized on the way out... And the amazing thing is that on arrival each of them at the end of the canopy they were walking on, right where the shed ended, didn't fall to the ground but they would suddenly disappear and another guy would come out of the wall of the house...

I didn't count how many I saw, but at least ten or twelve... the thing must have lasted a little over a minute. Then they stopped going out from the wall, and the last one to walk over the shed came to the end of the canopy and disappeared just like the others. I tried to get something out of Carlos, but he only managed to tell me who didn't know who they were. I was very surprised by their reaction to something so amazing... Well, my reaction wasn't any more logic, for I continued to play marbles as if nothing had happened. I was so angry that I looked at the house from time to time in case they appeared again. I remember I didn't tell my parents anything for fear that I would be forbidden to play in that place again; besides, for sure, they would never have believed such a story.

Did you want to tell me that was the strangest thing that ever happened to me? – Antonio continued with a serious gesture. Handsome guy who belived something like that!  I'm left with at least the comfort of to know that it wasn't a hallucination of mine, because my friend Carlos  saw them too. What I never understood was that reaction of him.

He thought it was normal to see those guys walking around over there; he was so fresh, and we continued to play marbles as if nothing. It seems that he had already witnessed that scene on more occasions, but I assure you that he had never said anything to me.

I always thought that I would not find any facts similar to seen by Antonio and Carlos in the distant 1950s, so this case of Taboada was pigeonholed as an orphan in my archives for several years. I considered it an event isolated and unparalleled. However, chance wanted to

Drawing of the beings observed by Antonio and Carlos in Taboada in 1957.

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reinforce the incredible testimony of the children of Lugo, using the tenacious researchers Joseba Orraca and Charo Lozano, who in the year 2014 had the opportunity to learn about a similar cut occurred in Aragonese lands. Given the witness's desire to remain anonymous, and his refusal to have the story recorded on audio, Charo and Joseba chose to take notes in her field notebooks. Without However, at the last minute they did not resist the temptation and finally not to lose detail, they had everything necessary to record discreetly the full testimony. The events took place in 1977 in the city of Zaragoza, without being able to specify the exact date. The witness, Antonio B. L., had bought a small telescope to begin observing the night sky. One night, from the terrace of his house,