Show OLDEST GHOST ABOUT TO STIR every twelve years since spanish InvA invasion elon body of murdered priest appears WONT STAY INTERRED spaniard killed by indiana indian in new mexico who feared he would betray them to spanish invaders invader islets N 31 here reposes at prea pre ent the oldest and most persistent ghost in america this might be inscribed in t the he little adobe church here bere long ago at the time of the first spanish invasions of southwestern america a spanish friar was captured by the indians although kept as a prisoner for a time he later won their confidence and as years went by was admitted to their peculiar religious and political circles at last the rumor reached the tribe of the advance of coronado Co renado tn in search of treasure the indians feared treachery on the part of their spanish friend and one night he was waa stabbed to death by one of 0 tile the more skeptical kep members of the tribe tilbe the medicine men were horrified at the crime for not only had they come to respect the spaniards Chri adan teachings but had made him a par in their own religion and above all they knew what might be expected of enraged spaniards it if they should discover the crime burled near altar the priests body was hastily wrapped in a sheet and without any prayer or ceremony burled buried deep to la front of tile the attar altar in the little christian church in isleta coronados Coron ados men never neier learned 0 of tile the crime but a few years cars later a pe cullar mound appeared in front of the altar in the little church the horrified natives observed the mound was exactly the length and width of a mans body soon the hard earth floor crocked cracked and one morning just 12 years sears after the burial of the priest his bin body was discovered lying face upward above the spot where lie he had been burled on exam examination it was found that tit the e b ody body was soft us its though th the a 7 HI his body was wa discovered priest had been dead but ft a few days day and the wound in ills his back was clot ted with fresh blood there seemed to he nothing to do but to bury him again this they did and were careful to press the he earth down very firmly it was vas no use the crack re appe appeared ared and widened and at the end of another 12 years they found him lying there again and as before the body showed no sign of decomposition ghost appeared tills this went ant on every 12 years antu 1012 then when according to linhrt lial lit the ghost appeared the alie old men culled called a council the governor was as sent for as livell as tile priest of the parmi parish and the of santa ve re and a nis li biting cardinal from rome they all came ame and a paper was signed to the lie effect that they had seen the body bod again it was aa burled bulled hut but this time in it henvy heavy oak casket and over oer UK tile gravel grave and oven en over the aholo holo floor door of the church chui cli wits ns laid anil and nailed a leav plank floor plank flours floors are not colilli loll in it little littie tle adobe churches in tills this region reelon and this Is tile the explanation of ill alio most truthful ronn tit in islet a rut but now vis l ihie there Is a bulge lit in the lie drig ng the size of a minis body and tile nails in ill tile lie floor protrudes pro trudel apparently the Is trying to 10 come again to nicla find tile the limni people tire arc looking burward lily to 1024 |