Mission San Miguel Chapter 4 Summary

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Chapter 4: Grisly Murders and the Entities in Mission San Miguel

Built in 1797, Mission San Miguel served as a church to serve the needs of the local Native American population in the locality. In its history, it has experienced a fire, major change in government, a horrendous massacre and a major earthquake and managed to survive to the present.
Much later, when a new government was formed in Mexico, it cracked down heavily on the Spanish Franciscan Friars and the church. The church was converted into a public building with a civil administrator in charge. All missions were sold to private parties, and the san Miguel mission was purchased by Petronillo Rios and William Reed, two business partners. They opened the buildings as inns for travelers.
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She floats around the grounds hunting for her children. The spirit probably does not know whether or not her children had been murdered the way she and her husband had been. It must have been an emotional torture for her not knowing whether or not her children got away safely.
An entity of a little boy, possibly Reed’s son, has been seen drifting around the mission, playing at times and looking for his family at other times.
The ghost of a little Indian boy, the shepherd’s grandson, has also been spotted here. A three year old girl and her grandmother were shopping in the gift shop. The little girl told her grandmother that she’d seen a small Indian boy with wounds on his neck and head. She also said that the boy couldn’t talk to her.
The entities of the two murderers killed in the posse are also supposed to still hang around here. It could either be their spirits or the residual negative energies of them. Maybe they languish in guilt and grief because they did not have a chance to confess or receive judgment. They are still grounded to earth probably still hunting for the gold they never found. Some people have heard the noise of the entities running around and rummaging the things, late in the

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