George Soto, a professor of history at Berkley, is doing research on the old west when he is told about a box containing hundreds of photographs from western towns.

George takes the box and puts it in storage in the college's archives. While studying the contents, he also finds photographs of Springdale, as well as other towns that have disappeared.

One day he goes to the box to find the Anima Obscura resting on top of it. No one claims it, so he keeps it.