LIMA’S LA CASA MATUSITA
LA CASA MATUSITA, OR the house of Matusita, is one of Lima’s most haunted places. Many believe the area was cursed in the 1700s by Dervaspa Parvaneh, a Persian healer who practiced alternative medicine. The Spanish Inquisition persecuted and tortured her until she confessed to being a witch. They burned her at the stake, but she cursed the area before she died.
A wealthy man who built his house on the cursed site met a gruesome end. A Japanese family, the Matsushitas, whom the house is named after, moved in and met a tragic end.
More deaths and unusual phenomena followed. But some believe the house isn’t haunted and spirits of deceased prisoners from the nearby jail caused the activity. Others claim the stories were fabricated because the house was an ideal locat
