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5 min readBrenda Soto worked the night shift at an OXXO in Nezahualcóyotl for two years, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The pay was good and she needed the money for college. The first few months were unremarkable — drunk customers, taxi drivers, people leaving parties. Then a customer started showing up every single night at exactly 2:15 a.m., buying the same things: ham sandwiches, Coca-Cola, and Gansitos. He was polite but had an empty stare, as if his body was present but his mind was somewhere else — or even in another time.
After weeks of watching him, Brenda followed him one night to an old neighborhood. When she asked around during the day, no one recognized him. She checked security footage from months earlier and noticed something disturbing: in older recordings he looked fuller, more alive. As the recordings moved closer to the present, he looked thinner and more run down, as if he was slowly wasting away. Then he stopped coming entirely.
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- 1 (01:31) **Brenda’s Routine and the Strange Regular** - Brenda Soto sets the scene: she worked the night shift at an OXXO in Nokalpan for two years, and after a few quiet months, a man began visiting every single night at exactly 2:15 AM, always buying the same ham sandwiches, Coca-Cola, and Gansitos.
- 2 (04:15) **Investigating the Man’s Origins** - Brenda’s curiosity drives her to follow the man after his nightly visit and later explore the neighborhood during the day, where a local shopkeeper denies anyone matching his description lives there.
- 3 (06:26) **Security Footage Reveals a Deterioration** - Brenda reviews security camera footage from the past months and notices that in older recordings the man looked healthier, but as the recordings approach the present, he appears thinner and more run down, as if “slowly wasting away.”
- 4 (07:36) **The Shocking Discovery at His Home** - Brenda knocks on doors in the neighborhood and eventually meets an elderly woman who identifies the man as her son, Jorge, and reveals he hasn’t left his room in three years since a severe work accident.
- 5 (09:52) **Jorge’s Explanation: The Ghost of His Former Self** - Jorge explains that Brenda’s description of his nightly routine is exactly what he did before the accident, and he admits he feels something strange—as if part of him desperately wants to keep living that routine, possibly projecting a ghost of who he used to be.
- 6 (11:54) **The Projection Returns and Speaks** - Back at her shift at 2:15 AM, the man (or whatever it is) enters, buys his usual items, and for the first time smiles at Brenda, saying, “Thank you for visiting him. The real me. I’m his desire to keep living. His need to believe he still has a life outside that room.”
- 7 (13:04) **Brenda’s Intervention and the Resolution** - Brenda begins visiting Jorge weekly, taking him for walks at night and buying him his sandwiches and Gansitos, helping him live his routine in reality rather than through a projection.
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