Garabandal is a small town of about 100 inhabitants, most of them older people, since the youth from the 70s onwards little by little emigrated to the cities or abroad, since the town’s activity was based on livestock and because it was In the high mountains it was very unprofitable. It was a town of ranchers and shepherds, with about 350 inhabitants in the 60s, currently about 100 people live there, mostly older people, in summer about 200 people live there. It is the highest town in the entire Rionansa municipality (500m), with very little vehicle traffic since the road ends in the town itself. Let’s do some history. In the early 1960s, the town attracted the attention of the media. Between 1961 and 1965, four young people of school age (Conchita González, Mari Cruz González, Jacinta González and Mari Loli Mazón) claimed to have witnessed apparitions of the archangel Saint Michael and the Virgin Mary. According to them, the first prepared the girls for the subsequent appearance of the Virgin, which occurred on July 2, 1961. During nearly 2,000 sessions, which attracted large crowds, the girls entered a state of deep ecstasy and apparent phenomena were recorded. paranormal phenomena recorded by cameras or film, in the presence of hundreds or thousands of witnesses (depending on the sources) who tried to remove the psychics from the trance by means of needle pricks, burns or blows. Some shone lights directly into their eyes but failed to cause them to blink. The girls were able to run backwards so fast that not even the local youth could catch up with them; They fell between the stones of the roads, causing bruises to their knees that sounded “overwhelming” according to those present, but the girls never seemed to feel pain.