This is a preview of a full episode available on the Otherworld Patreon. Valentina is a psychologist from Santiago, Chile, who works with at-risk children placed in government care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Valentina and her fiancé moved to Puerto Varas to start fresh and escape city life. One day, while working at her new job, she and a coworker encounter an old woman and a young boy who seem to bring a dark energy into the office. This energy continues to manifest, eventually compelling them to take action to rid themselves of it. To hear the full episode and support the show, sign up for the Otherworld Patreon To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is this episode about?
What you're hearing right now is a short preview of a full episode that's available right now on our Patreon. If you want to hear the full thing, you can visit patreon.com. Welcome to the Otherworld Patreon. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This week we have a bonus episode for you that comes all the way from South America.
It was sent in by a woman named Valentina, and she is a psychologist based in Chile. This is an interesting story because, well, if you've heard a lot of our episodes, you've probably noticed a pattern, specifically with the darker ones, and that pattern is that People dealing with significant trauma or instability seem to report encounters with some kind of negative presence.
There are many beliefs across the world about various entities being drawn to or feeding off negativity, or that negativity and trauma can open somebody up and make them vulnerable. Valentina was actually living a very happy life outside of her work, even though she did enjoy her work at the time. But her job does involve helping children that are in incredibly bad situations.
I think she sees, hears, and has to help people with some truly awful things. Normally, that's something she's able to do and something she loves to do. Except one day, her and her co-worker were working on a particular case that they think might have brought something strange into their workplace. I'm going to let her take it from here. I'm just going to call this episode Valentina.
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Chapter 2: Who is Valentina and what is her background?
Chapter 3: What kind of work does Valentina do?
I think she sees, hears, and has to help people with some truly awful things. Normally, that's something she's able to do and something she loves to do. Except one day, her and her co-worker were working on a particular case that they think might have brought something strange into their workplace. I'm going to let her take it from here. I'm just going to call this episode Valentina.
Chapter 4: What challenges does Valentina face in her job?
Chapter 5: How does Valentina's story relate to trauma and negativity?
There are many beliefs across the world about various entities being drawn to or feeding off negativity, or that negativity and trauma can open somebody up and make them vulnerable. Valentina was actually living a very happy life outside of her work, even though she did enjoy her work at the time. But her job does involve helping children that are in incredibly bad situations.
I think she sees, hears, and has to help people with some truly awful things. Normally, that's something she's able to do and something she loves to do. Except one day, her and her co-worker were working on a particular case that they think might have brought something strange into their workplace. I'm going to let her take it from here. I'm just going to call this episode Valentina.
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So my name is Valentina. I'm from Chile. I grew up in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Chile is like a very southern country in South America. I've always lived in Santiago. My family grew up here. I went to middle school, high school and the university here in Santiago. Chile is a very thin and long country. So we have in the north a very different climate, like a very desert climate.
But here in Santiago or in the south, it's very cold. Santiago is like the center. And sometimes we forget about the north that is so different, the south that is so different. Chile is a country that is considered to be developing so well in terms of economic, cultural and politics. We have a very democratic politics here. Chile is also very known because of the culture, the folklore.
In school, we had a class that is called Lenguaje. where they teach us about folklore. I think it's a Latin American thing that you always have someone that had a story. So my grandmother, my mom, my friend's mother or something like that. I've always grew up listening to some stories and I always found them so very fascinating.
I try to first be like, okay, there must be a rational explanation or some kind of thing that can explain that. But I'm very respectful of those stories. I am a psychologist. I have specialized in the care and protection of children in Chile. Since graduating from university, I have worked with high social risk children in schools, in organizations. So I've been in that field for a long time.
Due to the pandemic, we have one of the strictest regulations during the pandemic here in Chile. The pandemic hit very hard here in Chile. So my then-fiancé and I decided to leave our jobs and embark on an adventure in the south of Chile, seeking for a change, seeking for...
a slower life, a place in where we are surrounded by nature, because Santiago is very crowded, a very hectic life, like very, very fast. And with my fiance, we decided we wanted a life that is more peaceful in a colder climate and surrounded by nature. We moved to Puerto Varas in La Región de los Lagos. There I found a job, the job of the story.
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