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6. Not a ghost image at all. The image used is Eva (Evita) Péron. There are always fresh flowers there at her tomb and it's a nice idea to think she may wanna check this out from time to time :)

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5. Goody's ghost. This apparently was not a real ghost pic but a fake made by Hampton photographer Ralph Morang. Hampton Court, London (2003) itself gave some interesting footage in itself as u can see in the 3rd pic. It was made by a security camera.

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4. Sefton Church, Merseyside, England, 1999.

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3. Unfortunately i have no data on the original image.

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2. Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England 1995. This was taken during the fire which burned down the town hall.

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In case u couldn't find the "ghost" images in the movie. Here they are in larger format. Also added the original images i used. I'll do 1 per post so it doesn't get too messy.

1. The original image below was taken at Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago, IL in 1991.

Ghostly Recoleta Cementary

Now that was a pain to make. The movie was too large and too long (12.38 min) for Youtube so i had to work around. The advantage is that u get 640 x 480 resolution. Nice and big :) I hope it doesn't draw too much resources on ur pc! Disadvantage is that i can't display it directly in here. I simply don't know how to do it. :p It did run smoother with IE instead of Firefox in this case.

The image below is not the movie. Click on it to be taken to the movie itself.

-A movie made complied of images and movies from my visit to Recoleta Cementary, Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 1st and April 9th 2008.

Nothing paranormal went on yet for fun i tried to add some world famous ghost images to my existing ones. In this movie there are 5 pics which contain ghosts. Can u find them?

The movie ends with images from the tomb of Eva (Evita) Perón. also there is one image edited. Not a ghost image but it looks like one.

Before Evita was laid to rest there is quite a story before that. She has been buried in Milan, Italy during the dictatorship which overthrew her husband Juan Perón in 1955. Basically her body was missing for 16 years until the dictatorship revealed the Milan location. Before that time she had been embalmed and displayed in a Lenin like fashion in Buenos Aires. In 1971 she was exhumed in Milan and flown to Spain where Juan Perón lived at that time. He kept her in his house until he returned to Argentina in 1974. However he did not take her with her. It was Isabel Perón who became the first female president to get Evita's body back to Argentina where she was buried in the world famous tomb.

For more on Eva Perón check for example Wikipedia.

Little angel

I love angel statues like these. This one is taken at Recoleta Cemetery. You can find plenty of those statues there.

Recoleta buildings

Here an image of great facade in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Note the difference with the apartment building on the left. You see that all the time. All kinds of styles next to each other.

Recoleta Cemetary

Recoleta is most known for it's cemetery. It's one of the main tourist attractions. Most come for the tomb of Evita Perón but also other great names of the Nation are buried there. Names you often find back in streetnames and also subway stations. The image i found interesting. B & W with one touch of red in the shirt.

A few known names:

Honorio Pueyrredón
Bartolomé Mitre
Juan Bautista Alberdi
Carlos Pellegrini
Leandro Alem

Below is also a nice movie made by someone about the cemetary. It's mostly focussed on the statues. Greatly done with the music. A bit spooky even.

Recoleta façade

This image is from the Recoleta neighborhood, Buenos Aires. I have no further information about the purpose of the building or exact location.

Leave a comment if you know where and what it is!

Floralis Generica

In the United Nations park in Buenos Aires, there's an eye catching sculpture called Floralis Generica, or the Generic Flower in Latin. It was designed by Eduardo Catalano, an Argentinian architect who trained in the US.

The 18 ton sculpture opens up during the day and closes at night. I didn't get a picture of it, but it was glowing red at night which was pretty cool looking.

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La Recoleta Cemetery

La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Cemetery includes graves of some of the most influential and important persons of Argentina, including several presidents, scientists, and wealthy characters. Internationally, Eva Perón is one of the best known persons buried in this cemetery.

The entrance to the cemetery is through neo-classical gates with tall Greek columns. The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums, decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles. The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks, with wide tree-lined main walkways branching into sidewalks filled with mausoleums.

While many of the mausoleums are in fine shape and well-maintained, others have fallen into disrepair. Several can be found with broken glass, littered with rubbish, and on occasion you might find a mausoleum being used as a janitorial supply closet, with cleaning and maintenance products stored on top of coffins.

Each mausoleum bears the family name etched into the facade; brass or bronze plaques are added to the front for particular family members. La Recoleta is one of those cemeteries where the tradition of engraving a death date but no birth date has been maintained.

One interesting and unique aspect of La Recoleta is a colony of feral cats that resides within the gates. Although they can be spotted anytime, they tend to gather in groups of dozens near closing-time, when some locals feed them.

The cemetery was featured in the educational film Destinos as the final resting spot of a wife of the main character.

Famous People buried at La Recoleta
Some of the famous interred in La Recoleta Cemetery are:

* Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810-1884), writer, politician, lawyer
* Juan Pujol, the first Governor of the Province of Corrientes and designer of the First Argentine National Stamp.
* Luis César Amadori (1902-1977), poet, composer
* Nicolás Avellaneda (1837-1885), President of Argentina
* Susan Barrantes, (1937-1998), mother of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
* Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), writer
* Miguel Juárez Celman (1844-1909), President of Argentina
* Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995), F1 champion race car driver
* Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877), politician, caudillo
* Luis Firpo (1894-1960), heavyweight boxer, "The Wild Bull of the Pampas"
* Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967), poet, journalist
* José Hernandez (1834-1886), writer
* Arturo Umberto Illia (1900-1983), President of Argentina
* Enrique Larreta (1875-1961), writer
* Luis F. Leloir (1906-1987), scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
* Leandro Alem (1844-1896) politician
* Cándido López (1840-1902), painter and soldier
* Vicente López y Planes (1785-1856), lyrcist, politician
* Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938), writer
* Eduardo Mallea (1903-1982), novelist, essayist
* Carlos Menditeguy (1915-1973), race car driver and sportsman
* Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906), writer, former president
* Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), writer, publisher
* Carlos Pellegrini (1846-1906), former president
* Luis Piedrabuena (1833-1883), explorer
* Eva Perón (1919-1952), First Lady of Argentina
* Honorio Pueyrredón (1876-1945), educator, statesman
* Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877), politician
* Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933), politician, former president
* Dante Quinterno (1909-2003), cartoonist
* Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959), statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner
* Domingo Sarmiento (1811-1888), writer, former president
* Juan Facundo Quiroga (1790-1835), caudillo (subject of the book Facundo; Sarmiento's most famous work; his remains were only recently discovered in the cemetery)

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