"You see the state it's in?" " It's destroyed." " The wood... neglected." "In summer, the rain, the brambles, it destroys everything." "The roots get in here and..." " Just doing this, it falls apart." " Brwks up." " It's a shame." " It must have been impressive once." " Is that wood?" " Yes." " Is it?" " Yes, yes." " It's rotten." " I thought it was cement." "From the back, I thought it was plaster." "In its day, it had a red facade and this was another color." " It must have been beautiful" " Yes." "You know there's some concrete here?" "This is new." "There must've been a door here." "It must be modern." "These arches stop there." " They were probably added after." " Maybe." "There were several phases." "That's new, this is old." "That piping is old." "See how it goes into the house?" "Who knows." "At least you've found a good position." "Well, we're waiting for him." " Look at this here." " Is it broken?" "If I climbed on it..." "It wouldn't take much to brwk it." "From here upwards, it has fallen." "Yes, it must all be down there." " A shame." " Yes." "But it looks as if someone looks after it a bit." "It's logical." "Someone must out the weeds." " Yes." " Otherwise the brambles take over." "The grass out front is looked after." "How long will Jesus be in there?" "As usual." "You never know." "A couple of hours." "He won't be happy until he's found something." "Until he's found a bone..." "Meanwhile, we wait" "Getting totally bored." "I'd rather carry on cutting back the undergrowth." "History happens slowly." "It happens slowly here." "History is slow." "Life is fast." "Between the house and the church, they've found bones, right?" "Yes, I've seen some bones." "They dug some up the other day." "I don't know what they want them for" "I suppose, in the past..." "There were... events, wars, conflicts..." "Between the house and the church, it probably goes back centuries to when children died and couldn't be buried because they weren't baptized, there must be bones and stuff from many years back, all mixed together here." "In that case, they're better left in peace." "They've been there a long time." "They'll have a job piecing them together, dating them and so on." "Yes... ls there any point to it?" "Well, at least to know the history, the different events, how the people died." "If they're already dead what does it matter?" "You know that once we're dead" "We can still hear?" "It's the last sense a human being loses, even if you're brain dead," "you can still hear." " After death?" " Yes." "Hearing is the last sense to give commands to the brain, even though the brain is not functioning." "If the brain doesn't function, there's nothing left!" "No." "There is no reception, so it doesn't do anything with that sound, but hearing commands still reach the brain." "So... when I die," "I'll still be hearing?" "Yes, they say we hear what we never wanted to" "So I'm going to hear criticisms?" "There must be people who have heard the dividing up of their will once they're dead." "Well, I don't know." "I'm rather skeptical about these things." "Well, that's what people who study the human body say they say that it's the last sense to die." "And how do they know?" "They must have run tests, I reckon." "It's like that house, and its walls." "It seems that after all this time, it still gives us bones, it still gives us news..." "Yes, but they've come to interfere in things." "The bones... weren't saying anything." "Do those bones also hear?" " No." "No." " Okay." "They say it's only for a few hours." "Well, when I die I'll be on the alert." " Don't worry." " To see if anyone criticizes me." "You won't be able to tell anyone about it afterward." "Do you know anyone who has come back?" "No, no, I don't." "There'll be a storm today." "It's rained a bit." "It's nice here." "This is a very, very old house" "The house of the Murguias." "It's where the old Lords of Gipuzkoa lived" "You see the sort of house it is, these walls it has?" "In olden days, in the 13th century, imagine how long ago that was, there were two clans in Gipuzkoa, in one clan were the Ofiacinos and in the other, the Gamboinos." "To get more power in Gipuzkoa." "I'll explain first, then you can ask questions, Naia." "The Murguia family lived here." "They were in the Ofiacinos' clan." "Okay?" "If you look behind you..." "Does anyone know what that is?" "Who can tell me?" "It's a special window." "Naroa, what is that?" " The sky." " What?" "No, I'm talking about the window." "What kind of window is it?" "Do you have windows like that?" "No." "No, you don't." "What was it for, Jokin?" " For looking out of?" " It's too narrow to see out of." " Well, lbon." " For firing arrows?" "Right!" "In the past, this was a fortified house" "At that time, there were many wars here." "As you know, the two families had many problems." "The Way of Saint James came through here." "And there was only one way to cross the Urumw river, they could only cross it at Ergobia." "To get to the other side, they had to pay, and that money went to the Murguias." "How much did they have to pay?" "I've no idea At that time." "We can't really know that." "The people of Hernani and Oiartzun had to pay, but the people from here, Astigarraga, didn't." "They made a pact." "So they fought with people from Hernani and Oiartzun, who didn't want to pay." "Now let's go upstairs, to visit the other floors." "Come on, let's go." "Slowly!" "June, let's go." "I'm scared." "Wait." "I'm going." "June, let's go." "Leave about five feet or so." "Put it parallel to the wall." " There!" " Okay." "I was at a house in the village this week." " Here in Astigarraga?" " Yes." "Sometimes I get asked to go to the wake of a deceased relative" "So, I was at one of those." "I got to the house, and we're there, the family and a few neighbours, when, suddenly, as we were finishing the prayers, the dead body sat bolt upright in the coffin." " What?" "The dead man?" " It was a shock..." "Yes, yes." "The shock of our lives." "Yes." "You know priests can't lie, don't you?" "I wish I was lying, but it gave us such a shock." "Then we had to lie him down again after taking his pulse." "No more praying." " And he didn't get up again?" " No, not again." "We shut the lid and off to the cemetery." "But what a scare he gave us." "The deceased finished the prayer." " Wow..." " That's what happened." "I've never heard of that before" "Things like that do happen." "The people who work in the care home have seen that a few times." " Strange things." " He sat up but didn't say anything?" "What could he say?" "He was dead." "I bet he didn't like what we were doing." "Must have been an atheist." "Like you." "That could almost be a miracle." "No, because he was dead." "If the body had come back to life, it would've been different." "Okay, okay." "Lately," "I've been overcome by a white light." "A powerful light, a light which blinds me" "I see it coming towards me." "I see it all the time, it follows me." "I'" "I try to get it away from me, to make it leave, but it's always there." "I don't know what to do" "When?" "During the day?" "At night?" "All the time" "All the time, a white, white light coming from above, coming from in front, coming towards me," "I try not to look at it," "I try shutting my eyes, but no, it's still there, with me." "All day." "You should see a doctor." "What for?" "So he can tell me I'm crazy?" "No, because you can't live with that." "I can see it there now." "It's white, and coming towards me" "At times it seems as if it's above me." "And it gets blurred." "It's something that stalks me all day." "If you like, you could see a healer." "A healer?" "No, no" "No." "Some people go for their nerves... if they're nervous after seeing things... they go to the healer." "There's one in lkaztegieta." "I could go with you." "But the thing is..." "Nerves?" "No, it's not nerves, because this is... this is a quiet place." "But the light..." "I can see it." "I can see it now." "I can see it." "It's constant." "It's..." "It's..." "It's something I can't explain." "But I'm the only one who sees it" "Wherever I look, it's all light." "In bed, in the nicest of dreams suddenly," "an immense light wakes me up." "I open my eyes, and there it is." "There, inside the bedroom" "I get UP," "I walk away, it follows me..." "I don't know." "I don't know what to do" "You can't go on like this." "See if there's alight." "I'm switching it off." "Is there anything there?" "Come on, Jon, there's nothing here." "Let's go somewhere else." "No, there's nothing here." "Stop." "Stop it." "Hey, don't make so much noise." "Let's go and find something, there's nothing here." "Careful with the lights." "I'm switching them off." "Go ahead." "I'm coming" "You shouldn't get angry like this." " Don't take it..." " If you came, and saw they had destroyed all this..." " Yes." " How would you feel?" "You might feel bad, but it'll hurt you." "It's going to hurt you inside if you get so pissed off." "Of course I'm pissed off." "If I catch one of them I'll show them." "What do you plan to do?" "You're too old to go around beating up kids with a metal bar, man." "With a metal bar, with a chain..." "With whatever I can find." "You want a hero's pension or something?" "No." "They're twenty years old." "What do you think they are?" "And there'll be two or three, four, five or six of them." "That's about right." "In a group, because they're such cowards." "They wouldn't come alone." "If I go inside one day, and find someone in there, with this bar or with a chain I'll show them." "We're a bit old for all this, Luis." "It's not possible." "Let them damage the door, not you." " And who suffers?" "The door?" " No, but..." "You don't need to go through this" "I'll grab him..." "I'll wring his neck..." "It always happens when I'm not here." "Who's there?" "Okay..." "Hello, little one." "Easy, easy, 93$)..." "To my son Marco."