San Felipe Mission

The mission stands near the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church and overlooks the six Latin crosses that are the namesake of the town of Six Crosses. Rumor has it that the crosses were the final resting place of a coven of witches (in some stories wrongly accused), and that their ghosts now haunt both the hill where the crosses stand and the mission itself. On Autumn nights when the moon is full, it is customary for children in town to dare one another to approach the crosses or the mission, though the mission's disinterested night guard usually does his best to scare them off with appeals to authority before they see any apparitions.

The mission was established in 1736, and would later see a fort, jail, and church added to the grounds. While the Presidio was partly leveled, first by an ill-fated jail break and then by a freak storm that rendered it unworthy of rebuilding, the mission remains in more or less the same condition as when it was built nearly three centuries ago. The old communal living spaces, cells, kitchen, and sanctuary have been converted into a museum, but the reliquary is now off-limits to the public and still serves its original function, though what exactly lies inside is a matter of some debate even among the faithful, and only the clergy are allowed entrance.