This Is the Scariest Mission in California

This Is the Scariest Mission in California

Explore the Haunting of Mission San Antonio de Padua: Ghostly Monks and a Headless Horsewoman. Discover the chilling history of California’s forgotten mission, where eerie apparitions and unsettling encounters have left visitors questioning reality. From ghostly figures in the night to the legend of a headless rider, this story delves into the darker side of history. These accounts will keep you on edge as you explore the mysteries that still haunt this sacred site.


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[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: In the summer of 1994, Carlos and his girlfriend Maria found themselves in the very isolated mission San Antonio de Padua.

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He loved history, so when he learned that they could actually spend the night in one of the oldest mission buildings in California, he had to do it.

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But this wasn't Maria's idea of a fun weekend. But after a lot of begging, she agreed to go.

[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a long drive, down a very isolated road. Carlos could feel the loneliness.

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_00]: As they were set up to sleep, Maria realized neither one of them packed extra water.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Carlos could see that she was upset and tired, so he offered to go to the nearest store for some, but Maria didn't want to stay by herself.

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So they both went.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: As they drove down the long, dark road looking for a store, they happened to see this building.

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Neither one of them remembered it being there before, but maybe they just weren't paying attention.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Carlos pulled the car over on the side of the road and they both got out.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They walked up to the building and noticed that it appeared to be some sort of diner.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Carlos opened the door and followed Maria in.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: When the door closed behind them, everyone inside was staring at them.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: All 15 people stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the pair.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They all looked angry. Everything was covered in ants.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_00]: A woman that might have been the waitress looked at Carlos and Maria with hatred in her eyes.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He felt an unexpected and intense unease.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: He grabbed Maria by the hand and turned around, and they ran back to the car.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Once they were inside, Maria turned to Carlos and asked him a question, one that they still cannot explain to this day.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Were they all wearing old clothes?

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Because the people inside the building did seem to be wearing Depression Era clothing.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Carlos didn't want to think about it anymore and simply sped away.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They got back, packed their things, and left immediately.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Growing up here in California, we all at some point did a project on the missions.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Had I known about this one, it would have been my choice.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was, as it has been for a very long time, a forgotten one.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They do seem to have some visitors.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Both alive and dead.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Edwin, and here's a horror story.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Mission San Antonio de Padua can be found at the end of Mission Road in Holón, California.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's below the Santa Lucia Mountains.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're familiar with the area, it's next to the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just isolated today as it was 200 years ago.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's still known as the loneliest mission in the state.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But let's go back a little bit first.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: The Spanish first colonized this side of the world in the late 1500s,

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: but it wasn't until the late 1600s when they made it to this part of California.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: When they began making settlements, there were like 310,000 indigenous people living in what they called

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Alta, California.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: As the Spanish made their way through, building missions to convert the indigenous population,

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: that number got a lot smaller.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded in 1771 in the land of the Salinan people.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Father Junipero Serra and his party meant to go further, but they were tired and could not keep going.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The other two missions in California were a lot closer to the already established Camino Real.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_00]: For some reason, the father felt the need to walk further,

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and he claimed the lonely isolated site on the 14th of July 1771.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The actual construction wasn't done until 1810.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: In 1805 there were 1,300 indigenous Salinan, Yokitz, and Esselin.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But by 1810 there were only 178.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: They were forced into these missions where they were exposed to disease and harsh living conditions.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Conditions that included forced labor.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a hard life.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Large towns usually formed around missions, but not San Antonio de Padua.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: It never quite grew and as time passed more and more people kept dying.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: In 1834 ownership of all the missions went to the Mexican government.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: By then there were only 150 indigenous people living in San Antonio de Padua.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Then 15 years later the government declared all the missions for sale.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: No one tried to purchase San Antonio de Padua.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually the mission fell into a state of neglect.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: By 1900 the walls were crumbling, the roof was caving in and no one lived there.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Only the dead remained.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It was normal to bury the deceased next to the mission.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Then in the 1940s the United States Army acquired the land that surrounded the mission.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The Hunter Liggett Military Reservation was established and it was used to train US troops during World War II.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You still have to drive through the military reservation gates to get to the mission today.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It was during the construction of the base that people realized that even though the site was abandoned, they weren't alone then.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: As US Army engineers got to building the fort strange things began happening.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: A crew was digging when one officer was approached by an enlisted soldier.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Someone had found a skull.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: The officer sighed because this could stop all construction.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This needed to get done.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: World War II was only getting worse and this fort needed to train men for battle.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The officer simply told the soldier to give him the skull and to be quiet.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They figured a professor friend of his might know something and decided to pay him a visit.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So he got inside the army jeep and put the skull in the passenger seat.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It was dark now and the stretch of road was long and lonely.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: He always felt uneasy driving there but he didn't know why.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And as he tried to ignore the feeling he suddenly heard a sound to his right.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This was weird because no one else was ever on this road.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He turned and saw a woman riding a horse.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: At first he shrugged it off.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: There were still some Indians around and it must have been one of them.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she was messing with him.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But when he looked again he saw her.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_00]: She was missing a head.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The officer sped up trying to get away and after what felt like minutes he turned to the right.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: She was gone.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: He felt relieved and started to slow down but then when he looked straight ahead

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_00]: the headless woman was in the middle of the road reaching for him.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He hit the brakes and turned the steering wheel hard.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: When he came to the jeep was on its side but he was okay.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He sighed and looked around.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The skull was missing.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this was a sign.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: A sign that they shouldn't be there.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: As the fort was completed stories of a headless woman on a horse spread among the soldiers and locals.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Back in the spring of 1899 the Halloran family had just arrived in the wild west.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They left their home in Philadelphia in search of something new.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They also received land from the government and all they had to do was make it there.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They rode the train most of the way and then they traveled by horse.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The trip had been surprisingly easy so far.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: The family was just now facing their first hurdle.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out the train would only take them up to Holon, the nearest town by their new home.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But they had a river to cross.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The local ranchers and the indigenous people warned the Hallorans not to cross.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They said it was too high right now.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Alice wanted to wait too but Michael thought they were lying.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They also needed to think about baby Clara now, not just themselves.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Alice insisted the land will still be there in a week please.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But Michael refused.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He made Alice get back in their wagon with baby Clara in her arms.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_00]: He sat in the driver's box and urged the horse on.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The water rocked the wagon but Michael was stubborn and pressed on.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Less than halfway through the current was just too strong.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: The wagon flipped.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Somehow Alice was caught in the reins.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The horses struggled to free themselves and as they tried she was decapitated.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Baby Clara drowned and only Michael survived.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He made it to their land without his family.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Alice's head was never found.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: She was actually buried without it.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Little Clara, well, she was never found.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They say that now Alice haunts the land searching for Clara and for her missing head.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It is said that she can be seen on moonless nights holding out her hands pointing in the direction of the river.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Some say that the headless woman that haunts the mission is not Alice.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That it's actually a Salonan woman named Claora.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Claora married a white miner and things were okay but Claora didn't love the miner.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Her love was another Salonan man.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: This was the easiest route to a nice life.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Ever since the settlers arrived her people were worse off and she didn't love what she had done but she had no choice.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: She did what she had to do.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: She thought that he could sense how she really felt but he never said anything about it.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Things were actually great right now. He was gone.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: He went looking for gold and would not be back for several months.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she could even see her real love at this point even if it was just for one night.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: She thought it over for a couple of weeks and decided that it was safe to meet.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But one night turned into many and her husband was due home in a couple of days.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: She had to say goodbye soon and this broke her heart.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: She wanted one more night and he agreed.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: They were happy holding each other and drifting into sleep.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The dream life was interrupted.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Claora's husband returned early and found them together.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: He was furious, screaming and breaking things.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He stepped outside for a moment and Claora begged the love of her life to run, to save himself.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But he wouldn't leave her.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Her husband returned with an axe in his hand.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Her love tried to fight but her husband's rage was stronger.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: He swung at both of them until they were dead.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't done.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He chopped her head off.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Then on his way out he used the axe to kill her white horse.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Then he buried them together except for her head.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: He decided to bury that somewhere else.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He knew her people thought that the spirit would never rest if they were buried this way and this is what he wanted.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So now on moonless nights Claora rides her white horse searching for her head.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Now there is no historical account of either version.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the stories that spread.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure we'll ever know which one's real.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But we do know that countless people, soldiers and visitors of Mission San Antonio de Padua have seen her.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And such is the story of Chris Smith.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Chris Smith had only been at his new duty station for about three months and he already hated it.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: There was nothing to do at Hunter Liggett and it was so lonely.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Now this was only a temporary assignment.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: He had only three more months to go.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that there was an end date is what kept him going.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: To top it all off he was stuck on night shifts and his fellow military police told him some story about a headless horse woman.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He knew they were just trying to scare him but it was a pretty good attempt.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_00]: One night he was doing his checks just like he always did, meant he was bored.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He thought about the story and chuckled at the idea.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That night was pitch black and the moon wasn't out.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So as he drove down the quiet, lonely road, the jeep suddenly stopped moving.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: All of the lights went out, the headlights, the dashlights, everything.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He tried turning the key but nothing.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The engine was also dead.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: This didn't make any sense.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They did their checks every morning and this vehicle passed a check.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So he tried again.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't see a thing down the road, it was just him in the dark.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He checked his watch and it was past midnight.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he got out thinking that maybe he could fix it.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And as he opened the hood he heard something.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Galloping.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It sounded like a single horse and it was fast.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: His heart started racing.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would there be a horse at midnight?

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He closed the hood and ran back inside the car.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He still didn't see anything.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But he heard it again.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Closer this time.

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: He tried the key again and again and after five minutes the lights suddenly came back on.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't make it out to his checks after that, he just sped back to the base.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And Chris Smith isn't the only person that has ever witnessed such a thing on this road.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a story of four soldiers trying to chase her down in a jeep.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: They never caught up to her but they watched as she disappeared into the darkness.

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_00]: One ammunition specialist was working when he heard a soft whistle.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: He looked up and saw a woman in white in the distance.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He got up to walk outside because it was late and no one should have been out there.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But when he opened the door and looked outside, she was gone.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: She's been seen riding the horse on the side of the road, floating inside the base.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes people just hear hooves in the distance.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But the headless woman isn't the only ghost roaming in this land.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Richard Sennett was on an archaeological expedition at Mission San Antonio de Padua in 1978.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Now these days were busy, it was hot and there was a lot of digging.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It was tiring and he was usually in deep sleep in seconds.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: During one of these nights he woke up to go use the bathroom.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It was weird for him as he was usually too tired to wake up.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But as he walked back to his bed, he was interrupted.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: There was a monk in a gown carrying a candle.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Now this wasn't an active mission anymore.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: There were no monks these days.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Richard was about to ask the monk what he was doing there but the monk vanished before his eyes.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Local indigenous people have told legends of flying people in long robes for centuries.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And today there are still reports of robed figures.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They stand in the doorways and underneath arches.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they simply disappear.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Many have seen these ghostly monks both in the mission and inside Fort Hunter Liggett.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially in the Hacienda, which is a historic building that was turned into a hotel on the base.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Ghost monks, a strange ball of light, disembodied footsteps.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The Hacienda has it all.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Specialist Johnson and her son had been at Fort Hunter Liggett for a while now.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't her favorite place but they were together and that's what mattered.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Their house on base needed some work and they had to find somewhere to stay for just a couple of days.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: She figured the hotel on base was the easiest.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It was going to be just for one weekend and since it was just the two of them, she thought it would be okay.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They were checked into room 5 and after watching a couple of movies, it was bedtime.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Her son was extra restless at night which was very annoying since there was only one bed.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: He finally fell asleep around 2 in the morning and this meant she could rest too.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't last long.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Less than an hour later he woke her up.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Mom, mom, who is that?

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: She told him to go back to sleep but he insisted.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Mom, mom, who is that?

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Who? she asked half asleep.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, there.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: In the corner.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Her chest got heavy and she sat up.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He was pointing to the corner of the room.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And there was a cowboy standing there.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: He was staring at them.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: She ran out of bed, turned on the light and gathered their things.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: They checked out immediately.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Just a few weeks before that, another army specialist had complained about having to close his window again and again all night.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It was winter and he assured the front desk that he wasn't the one opening it.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He told them something was wrong with that room.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not just that room.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Guests have complained about children playing and bouncing a ball late at night.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But there are no children.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: One staff member felt a young child pull her hair.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Staff in the kitchen have heard the clacking of high heels walking behind them late at night.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Stephanie, an Hacienda employee, was in the kitchen one time chopping vegetables.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It was around dinner time, which was not that late.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: She heard a woman whistling outside.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a pretty tune.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So she stopped chopping and looked through the window.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: But no one was there.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: She went back to chopping and the whistling started again.

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So she stopped, walked back to the window and pulled the curtain.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Again.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Completely empty.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't the only one to hear the whistling.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It was heard pretty regularly in the kitchen.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Staff always thought that it was another worker, but it never was.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Mission San Antonio de Padua has a long history.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Over time it has gone through many hands from being the place of death for the indigenous

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: to a Franciscan school and now no longer an active mission.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a Catholic parish with a gift shop, museum and picnic tables.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It's surrounded by Fort Hunter Liggett where soldiers still train.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The mission has gone through many restorations.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But the many ghost stories and accounts of what lurks in the dark are a very clear reminder.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The past cannot be hidden.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Cannot be changed.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And it cannot be ignored forever.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: This episode of Horror Story was researched by Don with writing and pre-production by

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Christina Lumagi.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Sound and narration are by me, Edwin Covarrubias.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You can get our episodes and find me over on our website HorrorStory.com

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: but I'll also leave my contact information in the description of this episode.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Subscribers, I'll be back next week.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much for listening.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep it scary everyone.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: See you soon.