The Instituto Cultural La Moira in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighbourhood of Mexico City occupies a colonial-era mansion with a supernatural history that predates its cultural use. According to legend, the mansion was the scene of a terrible crime during the colonial period — a family was murdered within its walls, and their spirits have remained. The building, set in one of Mexico City's more affluent residential areas near Chapultepec Park, has been the subject of full apparition sightings. Visitors and staff at the cultural institute describe seeing members of the murdered family — a man, a woman, and children — walking through the rooms as though the violent event never occurred. Some witnesses describe the family appearing to sit down to dinner at a phantom table, only for the scene to be suddenly interrupted by screaming and the sounds of violence before everything vanishes. This cyclic haunting — repeating the moments before and during the murder — is consistent with what paranormal researchers call a residual haunting, and it is among the most vivid examples in Mexico City.
