Case file · Haunting
Reed family murders at Mission San Miguel
In December 1848 William Reed, his family and servants, eleven people in all, were murdered at Mission San Miguel Arcángel by robbers after he spoke of gold he had made in the mines. The killers were caught and executed.
1848 CE · 35.74, -120.70 · status: legend
The account
Stories of a ghostly woman in white and of Reed's hidden gold attach to the mission.