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Mar 2019
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The Creatures from the Hills

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In this scary story, we feature a first person account of a solo traveler through the ancient valley of Perú. Few of us have heard of them, but more people than you may realize have already had encounters. The "little people", they call them. They come from the dark hills. They exist.
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