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La Catedral was a prison overlooking the city of Medellín, in Colombia. The prison was built to specifications ordered by Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, under a 1991 agreement with the Colombian government in which Escobar would surrender to authorities and serve a maximum term of five full years, and the Colombian government would not extradite him to the United States. In addition to the facility being built to Escobar's specifications, Escobar was also given the right to choose who would guard him, and it was believed he chose guards loyal only to him. Moreover, the prison was believed to have been designed more to keep out Escobar's enemies and protect him from assassination attempts, than to keep Escobar in.

Now:

La catedral laid vacant for years before it came to the hands of city of Envigado. In 2007, a group of Benedictine monks from the Benedictina Fraternidad Monastica Santa Gertrudis arrived at the site and transformed it in 2007. The monks build a chapel, a library, a cafeteria and a guest-house for religious pilgrimages, workshops and a memorial to victims of the cartel.  The city Envigado ceded the entire prison land to them so that they could build an asylum for the poor and elderly of Envigado. The monks hired unemployed men and women to take care of the seniors or even paid for their training.

Supernatural Events:

People living in the cathedral have repeatedly reported to see the ghost sightings. The night patrolman and several other people have seen a robust figure wearing a hat and a poncho crouched against a table in the library. In 2010, nuns who were visiting the site had taken pictures of the waterfall near the Escobar’s bunker. On the way back to the Bogotá, they developed the film and found bright lights rising up from the water.

Location Advantage:

 The fog comes over after six in the evening and returns foggy at dawn. Therefore, the air assault is impossible. The location’s steep topography also prevents the military or rival cartels to mount on the La Cathedral easily. In addition, having buried a stash of weapons on the grounds, Escobar has the necessity to control his own fate.

copied from La Catedral