Paranormal record / 1983
Sunday, 12 June 1983. A 17-year-old named Miguel Ángel Poblete climbed a hill above Villa Alemana, in central Chile. A bright little cloud spun above a hawthorn bush. A soft voice called their name. On the shrub stood a young woman. Barefoot. Blue mantle, white veil, a rosary. Within months the hill was packed. On 29 September 1983 about 100,000 people kept vigil. Pilgrims said the sun spun on its axis and sacred figures formed in the clouds. The Church called it fabricated. Later accusers said Pinochet's regime had staged it. The pilgrims kept coming.
Chile, 1983. In May the first Jornadas de Protesta Nacional, the national protest days, challenged the Pinochet regime. Weeks later a teenager on a hill at Peñablanca, near Villa Alemana, said the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. Miguel Ángel Poblete was 17. Born in Curicó, they lived in a home for minors in Villa Alemana, 26 km east of Viña del Mar. Years later they would live as Karole Románoff.