00:01A deep malaise has invaded the town of Borone, with 2500 inhabitants, which is in the centre
00:07of Sardinia and on the borders of Barbagia, after a series of recent
00:12strange suicides. It all started with the deaths of sick and elderly people, but the
00:18The last dead, all suicides under the train, were young and healthy, all belonging to
00:24to the same group of friends at the bar, as there are in all the towns in Italy. On the
00:32walls of the old cellar that the boys frequent on winter evenings there are their
00:37graffiti written in marker pen, the lyrics of songs by Jim Morrison and Vasco Rossi, which here, at
00:43borders of Barbagia, refer to the same suggestions aroused in their peers of
00:48city. For these suicides, people have spoken of youthful desperation, of loneliness without
00:54I emerge from a violated archaic civilization. But without really explaining why Massimo Porcu,
00:5917 years old, perhaps the most restless of the group, was hit by the train on January 19th
01:05last year. Because exactly one year later Diomede Porcu tried, torn
01:10from the tracks, from friends and from the father. Because in this tragic game of emulation the hand
01:15passed to Ivo Cabras and Stefano Salaris, who on February 26th completed the same
01:21tragic choice, lying together on the tracks and both being crushed by the
01:26train. Because finally another young man tried it just a few days ago. Which
01:32A terrible secret pact binds these kids, the living with the dead. Something begins to emerge.
01:39confusedly, and it is a reality that disturbs and surprises.
01:44In my opinion he was pushed by someone, someone who knows who it is, only young people can know,
01:54because young people actually confide in these things here.
01:58But when you say he was pushed by someone, what exactly do you mean?
02:04The things of these forces that are being felt today, have never been felt before, today
02:08It was these spiritualists, these mediums, that I don't even know what they are, that I don't have
02:16I've never had anything to do with these things, except that today I believe in that, because I
02:23I saw him 15 days before, he had glass eyes, someone said that he was
02:28drunk, but he wasn't drunk. He doesn't have eyes in glass if he drinks a glass.
02:34of beer, even if in addition, does not bring the eyes to glasses, it only brings them to certain things.
02:40Why was he acting so strange? Because his father was talking to him and he wasn't responding.
02:45Was he absent?
02:46Yes, yes, yes, even his friends tried to talk to him, but he wasn't there.
02:55He just replied that it was the right thing to do what he was doing.
02:59Who knows what they say in these sessions, because they also did two kilometers
03:04and a half to get there. What did they even say to each other? Where are we going? To put ourselves
03:10under the train, but just thinking about that one, if they weren't actually plagiarized. Not me
03:17in my right mind I'm going with another, I even tell him, that we're going to the train, he
03:22Can you tell me what we're doing? Just go, I'll follow along. And obviously not, everyone and
03:27two have the same, because it is impossible for two to go and kill each other like that.
03:34Then also taking off their jackets, all three of them took off their jackets.
03:37And they put it...
03:39to mean that something is happening. That they're going somewhere...
03:41It's so cold how can we take off our jacket, more wind, freezing wind, and so on
03:47she's missing her shirt standing there in the open countryside.
03:50Open countryside is practically there.
03:53So, what does this make you think of the jacket?
03:55Those are the ones, there's a ritual there too, for example, how someone enters the house and takes off their coat.
03:59Eh, it's good when...
04:00Entering another house and taking off your jacket, your coat, it's the same thing.
04:04That is, they were both in a different world where they would need the coat.
04:11I saw him an hour or two before he killed himself, calm, calm as usual.
04:19He came and said no, he didn't want the wax because he had eaten a pizza here at the club.
04:25Relax, he looked at himself in the mirror, took his jacket and left.
04:30Enough.
04:30They're telling us a lot about this story, but not...
04:34Meaning what...
04:35What are they telling you? What's coming out?
04:38That Stefano was part of this little group of boys and girls who go to the cemetery, who still go there today.
04:45She believes that...
04:46They go there, yes.
04:49But how would these séances in the cemetery take place?
04:54Well, they go there with these little names and there should be the medium, I don't know who this medium is.
04:59And with these glowing names they now call Stefano, Ivo, Massimo.
05:06And they go and say things, I don't know.
05:09First he heard him say that they were calling Maria.
05:13Yes.
05:13What did you hear?
05:15That this Mary, according to...
05:17This person said he wanted Stefano and Ivo.
05:21And have you heard that there are other candidates to meet that end?
05:25Yes.
05:26I heard it.
05:27This is what scares me and my family.
05:29Because there's nothing left to do for Stefano, Ivo, and Massimo.
05:33Everyone in Borone remembers Maria Cappai.
05:36A lonely woman who often talked to herself.
05:39Her balance was upset when her husband left her to go to Russia to live with another woman.
05:45woman.
05:47Maria always said that sooner or later she would throw herself under the train.
05:51And one autumn day in 1991 he actually did it.
05:57Today in many homes in Borone his name is whispered.
06:00And this gives many people the shivers.
06:02They say that it is she with her voice, used by the mediums who evoked her, who pushes young people towards
06:09tracks.
06:10Three of these boys are already buried near her.
06:15And in Borore other kids live in an exalted climate.
06:19And among them they mention the names and surnames of those of them who will soon follow Ivo, Stefano and Massimo.
06:25In Borore the nightmare seems never-ending.
06:28And there are those who say that the devil himself is present in the community.
06:32The presence of an exorcist is invoked and indeed some explain that he has come and is already at work.
06:39Many claim that the origin of this malaise is the spiritual practices of a strange healer,
06:45Lussorio Vacca, a former sacristan, who knows how to create evil suggestions by evoking the souls of the dead and the devil himself.
06:53There was talk of this Lussorio Vacca who perhaps was the one who practiced spiritualism.
07:01There is certainly some particular fact that has scared some boys a little and maybe even some
07:09young.
07:10Evidently they must have seen something there.
07:16We're talking about the mirror, the picture made through the mirror, through which...
07:31who perhaps ask about their problems.
07:34When they ask him a specific problem, he doesn't give, at least from what they say, an immediate answer.
07:41He should retreat and draw this picture through the mirror and read there the answers he has to give.
07:48That is, in a room there is a large mirror.
07:51So they told me about a small mirror and they told me about a large mirror, yes, even a large one.
07:56mirror.
07:56Even that the person, this is another version, that the person goes there, stands in front of the mirror,
08:03the mirror lights up and then he reads about this person's life, about what is about to happen, I don't know.
08:11But at the level, I repeat, of things that kids say.
08:15However, it seems that some kids came away terrified from this experience.
08:18This yes, yes, yes, this is known to us, yes, yes.
08:21That at least some kids were scared, that's for sure.
08:28No, no, I don't want to hear about it anymore, I'm sick, you can't imagine how sick I am.
08:33It's not that I want to send anyone, that I'm a human person, everyone who knows me knows a
08:38human person.
08:39If these people canonized me, I didn't react at the time because I didn't know well, but I want to see them.
08:44to the face of who I am.
08:47That's enough now.
08:47Because it is said that these boys frequented the cemetery.
08:51And what do I know, I'm a mother of mine, I'm not in the cemetery.
08:54You feel like you don't see these things.
08:56But those are theirs, they were, here you didn't tell me from them.
09:02Since Massimo died, a year ago in February, the boys never came, I mean they came with him, that's it,
09:09sometimes he just told us that.
09:11Then the boys never came.
09:12Listen, but they told you this thing that you did the magic of the painting.
09:15You say who slandered them, who slandered them, I don't know.
09:19What a picture, what a picture, here they come for medicine skip, a little friend of poor people who are almost alone in this medicine
09:24of the thyroid.
09:25Enough, a daughter then.
09:26That there is a room where there is a mirror.
09:30Here is the mirror.
09:33Let me tell you, these are things that invent a country for you with the lord.
09:36That mirror sees the future.
09:38No, but you saw the future, I don't believe it, God knows the future.
09:42But those aren't my words.
09:44I don't believe in cards, I've never done a black mass, I don't know.
09:49Here comes the one who has faith, he tells me a prayer, since a person asks for it, well, the prayer is not
09:55it's a little machine.
09:55Go, pray, go to church, stop.
09:57But didn't you have this mirror in your room?
09:59But look in the mirror, sir.
10:02You don't lose it.
10:03But is this practice widespread here?
10:05So, it's as widespread here as it is in all other countries.
10:07They are perhaps sessions, sessions that begin as a game and then continue, because he believes in it, they continue, that is, they continue in a way
10:18serious.
10:19No, they were trying to summon spirits, maybe they thought they were calling spirits, but maybe they did something wrong.
10:27and they even called the devil.
10:29As far as I'm concerned, in these sessions, and I believe it, because I also participated, but on my own, with
10:37other people, but I let it go, because afterwards I saw the results...
10:44Why did you let it go?
10:45I gave up because some experienced people advised me to avoid certain things, because spirits, if they exist, must be
10:58leave them alone.
11:01Let's say that if we don't intervene on this problem, precisely, of the sessions, I think that this problem, this chain, will continue,
11:08let's say.
11:09Because there is talk that there should be more suicides in 1996.
11:16The problem is intervening and making them stop, because, after all, we can't continue like this.
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