Let's start at the beginning shall we?
Originally shared by JC Christopher Let's start at the beginning shall we? A few years before Ingress I ran across Mount Mesa Sanitarium while out geocaching with my family. There is a geocache hidden [REDACTED] of the ruins though it was described as a 'stone house'. In the Geocache comments someone mentioned that this place was called Mount Mesa Sanitarium and that piqued my interest. Why would you build such a place out here in the middle of nowhere miles from anything, the site lies on the northern end of LA County but is out in the desert far from the nearest town. Internet searches turned up nothing more than coordinates and satellite photos, locals knew of the site but wouldn't talk about it, and a search through LA County records only showed that the place existed in name but had nothing more to show of it. Growing up in a small town I can probably tell you every supposedly haunted place and ghost story from there. I know very well how that works, a place ...