SAN JACINTO ISLAND

About 5kms from bogmalo, there is a little lovely island called San jacinto island. It has old carved Portuguese houses and a picturesque chapel.

There is a church in this area known as the Hycinthi  church which has an underground tunnel. One can also see an old Portuguese lighthouse on this island. In the year 1927 a vow was made by the inhabitants of the island not to sell or lease it. Therefore the island still holds a Portuguese charm.

What makes it haunted is that, history says this island was a good luck to every married childless couple. Whoever visited this place was blessed with a baby. So as a thanksgiving  the first child was given up.  And this was done at the main alter of the church leaving the innocent bones as a pride. With years passing by,   the church was was acquiring cracks and slight tremors where  faced. It was then assumed that the sacrificed child was wanting eternal peace therefore the remains of the child where flown down to the river. Every midnight the people of the village heard the cries of the babies and a priest Jermo who started this practice was seen in the waters.

A man named Nicolas said "I followed him and the priest was friendly but he walked deeper to the sea with a blink of my eyes he vanished.

The tunnel was believed to hold many dead remains. The inhabitants of the village hear a woman howling who had committed suicide for not receiving her second child. The lighthouse is beautifully carved the stairway of the lighthouse is considered as an impossible staircase as it was constructed just with the balancing of stones and without any gumming. The lighthouse holds a window high up and is said to experience some flickering of lights and shadows when it holds completely no bulbs. Making this island historically haunted.

Analee D'souza

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