Halloween in Buenos Aires is not usually a deeply rooted celebration, but the truth is that it is fun to dress up and have an excuse to get together with friends and celebrate, think about what to do on Halloween with the kids or simply take it as an initiative to go out and have fun doing something unusual. Did you know that Buenos Aires has 5 haunted places that you could visit on any night? Or even on Halloween night.
These are the 5 haunted places in Buenos Aires that hold stories of passion, hate and death to discover any night and especially if you don’t know what to do on Halloween in Buenos Aires.
1. Santa Felicitas Church
Of all the haunted places in Buenos Aires, this may be the best known. The Templo de Santa Felicitas in Barracas was built in 1875 in honor of Felicitas Guerrero and her tragic story. Felicitas was a beautiful and wealthy young woman who was forced by her father to marry Martín de Álzaga, a much older man, at the age of 15. Felicitas married, lost her two children and at the age of 26, she was already a widow.
Enrique De Ocampo became obsessed with her but Felicitas did not want him. When Felicitas refused to accept him as her husband, Enrique brutally killed her and then committed suicide.
According to legend, if you tie a white handkerchief in the church’s grille and it gets wet, it is Felicitas’ tears.
Church of Santa Felicitas
📍Isabel La Católica 520
2. Palace of the Bugs
The Palacio de los Bichos is a five-story mansion in Villa del Parque commissioned by an Italian aristocrat as a wedding gift for his daughter wife. The house was next to the train tracks. After the ceremony, the newlyweds were ready to leave in their carriage but failed to see the oncoming train that ran over them.
The owner of the house sold it but legend has it that voices and laughter can still be heard as if people were still celebrating. Would you put the Palacio de los Bichos among your haunted places to visit?
Palacio de los Bichos
📍Bell 3200
3. Ghost Tower
In La Boca there is a beautiful modernist Catalan style building that you wouldn’t think holds a tragic history and ghosts. It was built in 1910, at the request of Auvert Aurnaud, one of the richest women in Buenos Aires at the time.
Legend has it that Mrs. Aurnaud brought and bought furniture, but with it came to the house goblins. Living in the building became a nightmare, so Mrs. Auvert abandoned her home and rented it to artists.
One of them, Clementine, rented the attic of the house. According to legend, one day a journalist went to interview Clementine and took several pictures of her and her paintings. Soon after, Clementina jumped from the balcony and according to the photos that the journalist took that day, among the paintings of the painter, three goblins could be seen.
Whether the goblins are responsible for this being one of the most popular haunted places in Buenos Aires, we will never know.
Tower of the Phantom
📍390 Pérez Galdos Avenue
4. The House of the Lions
The mansion known as La Casa de los Leones belonged to Eustaquio Díaz Vélez, a man fascinated by lions. He liked them so much that he brought three of them from Africa to keep them as pets in his house.
On the day of his daughter’s wedding, one of the lions escaped from its cage and killed the groom. Soon after, Eustaquio’s daughter, out of sadness, committed suicide and Eustaquio sold the lions but had the lion statues built that still decorate the house today.
It is said that the ghosts of the bride and groom still roam in this haunted place in Buenos Aires.
The House of the Lions
📍140 Montes de Oca Avenue
5. La Mansión Colombo or La Torre del Ahorcado (Hangman’s Tower)
The Roccatagliatta family with their two twins, Emmanuel and Vitorrio, moved into the upper part of the mansion designed by architect Virginio Colombo. Downstairs, two Hungarian immigrants lived with their daughter, Celina Amparo. The brothers fell in love with Celina and one of them murdered the other out of jealousy and hanged himself. This murder marked the destiny of this house and its future as one of the haunted places in Buenos Aires.
It is said that on rainy nights you can see the figure of one of the brothers hanged.
Colombo Mansion
📍Entre Ríos 1077