Peru’s La Casa Matusita

Ghost stories are sometimes used to scare people away from a building or an area.

The casa.

La Casa Matusita has gained the reputation for being the most haunted building in Latin America.

This casa is an innocent enough looking yellow structure in Lima, Peru’s center. However many locals claim it is haunted. It sits at the intersection of Garcilaso de la Vega and Espana.

There are several tales as to why some believe this building contains tortured ghosts.

One story told often claims a Japanese-Peruvian man slaughtered his entire family at the casa and then took his own life.

Another tale states that during a formal dinner party the guests were all given a hallucinogenic, which caused them all to go mad-- they then massacred each other.

Ever since, it has been believed the second floor of the casa is haunted.

One claim even states if a person dares to enter the second floor they will go mad.

Abandoned second floor.

Supposedly, a television reporter in the 1960s entered the second floor in order to debunk these claims—but it is said he went insane shortly after.

To add to the mystique of the casa it is reported that the second floor remains vacant.

This ghost story has an unusual twist. Some state the following is the true story.

The first ghost stories told about La Casa Matusita actually originated at the U.S. Embassy.

This embassy was located next door to the casa during the height of the Cold War. The diplomats assigned here invented the ghost stories because they feared that someone hiding in the casa could spy on them.

So they fabricated the ghost stories to keep people out.

La Casa Matusita

Others state that regardless this building is haunted—this belief has taken on a life of its own for today many claim the casa is haunted by demons.

In another post here, another ghost story is used to keep violent drunks, miners and toughs out of several 1800s communities in Wisconsin.