{
  "country_code": "SV",
  "id": "san-antonio-abad-siguanaba",
  "title": "The Siguanaba: a midnight warning remembered in San Antonio Abad",
  "category": "apparition",
  "date": "2023-01-01",
  "date_label": "Year of the published cultural-event account, not a supernatural encounter",
  "location": "San Antonio Abad, San Salvador, El Salvador",
  "lat": 13.72,
  "lng": -89.22,
  "summary": "An attributed community account remembers warnings about the Siguanaba. Scholarly comparison reveals a wider family of names and stories without making them identical.",
  "documented_claim": "The ministry’s account records a narrator’s memory of his grandfather’s midnight warning.",
  "unproven_claim": "The remembered warning establishes an independently observed apparition.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Ministerio de Cultura — Mitos y tradiciones de San Antonio Abad",
      "url": "https://www.cultura.gob.sv/mitos-y-tradiciones-de-san-antonio-abad-se-conocieron-en-maquilishuat-bajo-la-luna/",
      "language": "Spanish",
      "kind": "Primary cultural-event report",
      "note": "Attributes memories to a local participant; not a field verification of supernatural events.",
      "id": "S1",
      "accessed_on": "2026-09-30"
    },
    {
      "title": "Identidades 19 — Literatura y mitología del Trifinio centroamericano",
      "url": "https://www.cultura.gob.sv/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Revista-identidades-19-Digital_c.pdf",
      "language": "Spanish",
      "kind": "Scholarly cultural comparison",
      "note": "Issue dated July–December 2021 despite later upload. Relevant comparison and bibliography consulted; analogies are not proof of uninterrupted origin.",
      "id": "S2",
      "accessed_on": "2026-09-30"
    }
  ],
  "country": "El Salvador",
  "author": "Eklipsis",
  "content_languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "path": "/investigations/san-antonio-abad-siguanaba",
  "source_url": "https://www.cultura.gob.sv/mitos-y-tradiciones-de-san-antonio-abad-se-conocieron-en-maquilishuat-bajo-la-luna/",
  "location_precision": "region",
  "location_note": "Approximate orientation marker for the named locality, not an exact encounter, burial, ritual or excavation position.",
  "location_source_url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=13.72&mlon=-89.22#map=8/13.72/-89.22",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-09-30",
  "edition": 1,
  "truth_type": "unknown",
  "verdict": "Intergenerational Siguanaba storytelling is documented in an attributed local account. A supernatural encounter is not established by that recollection.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "title": "The mystery and the documented account",
      "text": "El Salvador’s culture ministry reports a storytelling event in which López recalled his grandfather’s legends in San Antonio Abad, including a warning about going out on horseback at midnight and the Siguanaba. The published recollection demonstrates how a childhood warning was transmitted; it is not a separately verified apparition. Identidades 19 compares related Trifinio names, literary treatments and oral collections. That comparative framework raises questions about transmission while requiring local accounts to retain their own identity.",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The question worth investigating",
      "text": "What did the narrator experience directly, what was told by his grandfather, and what belongs to wider comparison? Those levels must be separated before treating a warning as a sighting.",
      "refs": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Evidence, provenance and uncertainty",
      "text": "The event report is retrospective and edited. Its separate transformation stories are not evidence of the Siguanaba and are not merged into this case. The journal’s motif comparisons are interpretations; common names do not establish a single unchanged ancient story.",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Inspector’s assessment",
      "text": "Intergenerational Siguanaba storytelling is documented in an attributed local account. A supernatural encounter is not established by that recollection.",
      "refs": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Next research and discriminating evidence",
      "text": "Retrieve the event’s full recording if available and separate direct memory from inherited narrative. Compare local oral collections with dated literary texts. Preserve differences between Siguanaba, Sucia and related figures rather than selecting traits from all of them. Record missing testimony as missing.",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "Undated childhood memory",
      "text": "López recalls his grandfather’s stories and a warning against going out late.",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "July–December 2021 issue",
      "text": "Identidades 19 publishes comparative literary and oral-material discussion.",
      "refs": [
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "2023 cultural-event report",
      "text": "The ministry publishes the San Antonio Abad recollection.",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "30 September 2026",
      "text": "Eklipsis compiles this English documentary investigation from the named sources. No field visit or new eyewitness interview is claimed.",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "The ministry’s account records a narrator’s memory of his grandfather’s midnight warning.",
      "status": "Documented in the named record",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "The remembered warning establishes an independently observed apparition.",
      "status": "Not established by the selected evidence",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Intergenerational Siguanaba storytelling is documented in an attributed local account. A supernatural encounter is not established by that recollection.",
      "status": "Editorial assessment; stated limits apply",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "hypotheses": [
    {
      "title": "A warning transmitted through family and community storytelling",
      "status": "Supported by the recorded recollection",
      "support": "The speaker explicitly identifies his grandfather as a source.",
      "limits": "The memory does not establish the tale’s first origin.",
      "test": "Compare attributable family and local versions without turning recollection into an event date."
    },
    {
      "title": "A personal experience later interpreted through the figure",
      "status": "Conditional possibility",
      "support": "Existing narratives can influence later descriptions.",
      "limits": "No authenticated individual apparition report is provided in the selected passage.",
      "test": "Require an original first-person account and distinguish what was perceived from its later explanation."
    }
  ],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "title": "Trace the earliest accessible record",
      "body": "For The Siguanaba: a midnight warning remembered in San Antonio Abad, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable."
    },
    {
      "title": "Investigate the central question",
      "body": "Retrieve the event’s full recording if available and separate direct memory from inherited narrative. Compare local oral collections with dated literary texts. Preserve differences between Siguanaba, Sucia and related figures rather than selecting traits from all of them. Record missing testimony as missing."
    },
    {
      "title": "Compare explanations without merging evidence",
      "body": "Compare attributable family and local versions without turning recollection into an event date. Require an original first-person account and distinguish what was perceived from its later explanation. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed."
    }
  ]
}