The Haunting History of La Casa Matusita in Peru

Kerrie Gutierrez-Diaz
3 min readOct 2, 2022

A little bit on all the ghostly happenings at La Casa Matusita, a lesser-known haunting from around the world.

Picture of La Casa Matusita taken from maybe a tour bus with no top on and people all around building and on bus. Stop lights stopped bus for great picture of the sposely haunted casa

I just learned about this creepy place and had to research this lesser-known haunted place in Peru. I have heard of so many places around the world being possibly haunted but, this one I had never heard of. The story of the hauntings is fascinating also. So let’s dive into these neat hauntings I found on a few sites.

The first ghost story had been said by the U.S embassy. They had the building right next door to the casa. The embassy made up ghost stories to keep the enemy out of the casa so they could not use it to spy on them.

La Casa Matusita was built sometime around colonial times. It is said to be one of the most haunted homes in Latin America. There are many different stories attached to this house. It first starts out by saying that the house could be built on a cursed land that dates back to Spanish colonialism. Then a lady named Dervaspa Parvaneh was suspected of practicing witchcraft so she was burned at the stake on the land. And other site said she had lived here in the casa and she put a curse on the land and house…

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Kerrie Gutierrez-Diaz

Mother, Wife, Grandmother, I am on this writing journey like many of us here on Medium. Working on an ebook about one of my many interests in 2023.