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You may have clicked like a maniac to get away from Victor clip-clopping slowly towards the screen.
You may have jumped when that glass reformed itself in the American Diner.
You may even have spilled a bit of your Horlicks when Serge hit you with that shovel.
If your schoolboy French never really got past the Ou est la discotheque?
Thats where we come in.
The people are behaving strangely.
Only yesterday, a woman asked me where Marcellin Chemists was.
That shop hasnt been around for more than twenty-five years.
My grandparents used to own it.
My grandfather was always telling so many stories.
He used to say that anything could happen in this town, because the inhabitants will believe anything.
The flames caused the animals to throw themselves into the lake.
I feel like were going through another period like the one my grandfather described.
My grandfather said that the water running through the veins of this town sends people crazy.
In your presence, I feel things that Id forgotten since I was a child.
Is the devil behind it all?
I wanted him to taste the water, too.
I told him taste it Toni, youll see.
He drank but he said he didnt see anything.
It wasnt the same for him as it is for me.
Mum said it was time to talk to Him.
I was wearing my hood up and mum was angry.
She asked if I wanted to keep secrets from Him.
She said that I had to uncover my face to speak to Him.
[…] I thought it was great that He cant see me when I wear my hood up.
I thought Id found a way to hide my bad thoughts from Him.
If He cant see me, then I cant burn in hell.
I went to the swimming pool where the girls Toni goes to school with go swimming.
I put up my hood so He didnt see me.
I found a window I could look through.
The girls didnt see me.
I saw them get undressed and put on their swimming costumes.
Mum doesnt want me to talk to them.
Mum says I dont behave well around girls.
Mum says I scare them.
She says that if He sees how I look at girls, Ill be punished.
I like looking at them.
Its not my fault.
But the window isnt in the right place.
Its at exactly the height of the girls stomachs.
I cant see their face.
I cant see their legs.
I only see their stomachs.
Its like that every time, just stomachs.
I like looking at them.
But it makes me think lots of bad thoughts.
I dropped a deer into the lake water.
I didnt mean to.
It was on my shoulders and I bent over to drink and it fell in.
It wasnt my fault.
I was sure Id killed it but it moved in the water.
I took it out of the water.
I took my knife.
I killed it again.
I opened up its stomach.
I wanted to be sure it was dead.
I saw everything that came out.
I saw how warm it was.
I put some water on it.
I dont know why, it just occurred to me, like a bad thought.
I didnt hear any of the film whenever she was there.
I can see all of her.
I can see her hair.
But I only see her stomach.
I didnt have any choice.
Its not my fault.
I see her stomach.
And she lifts up a black glove and it takes ages for her to take it off her arm.
She slides the glove off and I see her stomach.
And I want to talk to this woman but mum doesnt want me to.
I want to take her to the lake and touch her stomach under the water.
But Mum will shout Youre going to burn in hell, Serge.
And mum is furious.
She says See Serge, you dont respect women.
You dont know how to behave.
You have bad thoughts in your head.
Youre going to tell Him everything.
Hes going to wash out your head.
Our verdict:it seems serial killer Serge was the product of aCarrie-alike, abusive religious upbringing.
Nature or er, a lack of nurture?
Julie has to understand why she was saved.
The patient was extremely reluctant to follow my suggestion.
She sees nothing religious about her resurrection.
Julie has no precise memory of the attack.
Our verdict:Could Julie be another revenant?
Was a faceless Victor appearing in her dreams before she met him?
We wouldnt put it past the little imp.
From the newspaper front page reporting on the original dam breaking in 1977
Back from the dead.
Thats what the survivors of the catastrophe look like 72 hours after the dam burst.
Their faces all bear the same expression.
Stupefaction, horror, incredulity.
They walk hesitatingly, unsteady on their feet.
God has abandoned us weeps one woman we met.
Hes watching from above while his children beg for mercy.
We were told that a church service was taking place when the 70-metre wave came crashing down.
None of the worshippers there survived.
The house of God did not offer them any protection
The demon tongue came to carry them all away.
A man was seen near the dam just before the catastrophe.
It was the watchman, says Mayor Costa.
He had heard the first crack and wanted to warn the village.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
People here like to interpret what they see, explains Mayor Costa.
Ghosts are alive and well in the area.
A group of individuals has not been accounted for.
They were near the lake when it happened, As if they were on a pilgrimage, were told.
There is no trace of them.
The water carried everything away.
Trees, cars, buildings, cattle, even a few kilometres of the railway track was torn up.
We asked about the group of people who have disappeared.
Weirdos says an old lady Theyd started following a man who promised them a better life.
A shepherd whose herd was completely decimated puts it more aggressively, They brought this disaster to the village!
If you ask me, they prayed for this catastrophe to happen to us.
So what if they didnt survive?
On the half-submerged carcass of a car, we saw a butterfly.
It spreads its bright wings, in contrast to the faint colours of the desolation around it.
Then it takes off.
It came to remind us that life will return here.
But not right away.
Who was the man around whom they gathered?
The butterfly motif returns, too, we note.
Over to you then.
