Daniel Alarcón
speaker
2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was a polite man, and he thought I was a sentimental fool, and I can't blame him, because I'd have thought the same thing six months earlier.
He took the photographs to be kind, and I watched him fold them into his jacket pocket the way you fold something you're going to throw away later.
He told me, friendly, that the first thing he was going to do was clear out all the junk the old man had nailed up, get the place looking like his own.
He tore the bell down.
I know because he mentioned it months later in a voicemail he left me about a question on the well.
Said offhand that he'd pulled that ugly old bell off the wall and pitched it.
Took some doing.
Four lag bolts.
Who hangs a dinner bell with four lag bolts?
He laughed about it in the message.
I never called him back.
I didn't know what I'd say.
Three months after he tore it down, in the deep part of the following winter, he went missing.
It was in the regional news for about a week.
A man from Syracuse, new owner of a remote hunting camp outside Old Forge, vehicle found at the cabin, no sign of him.
search and rescue out for days in bad snow.
They found his tracks leading away from the cabin, down the slope, toward the drainage, toward the old logging grade, walking in the night, in deep snow, away from warmth and shelter and his own running truck, out toward the place where the dead men lie, along the hall road.
The tracks went down into the hemlock and the snow filled them in, and they never found him.
Not in the winter, not in the spring."
As far as I know he's down there still.
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