Theme: The matusita house

Teacher: Olga Roque

Level: Basic 4

Integrantes:

- Merino Borda, Becky Mirella

- Cueva Flores, Aejandra
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 The Matusita House

A. History

The Matusita House is located in Lima center between España Avenue and Inca
Garcilazo Avenue. It has two floors, the first floor is rented to a bank while the

second is used as storage and mysterious things happen there.

People who went to the Matusita House say that they could hear scary noises

and saw strange things.

Ladislao Thierry-tiry Andrade, the owner of the Matusita house, denies the
presence of spirits. He says that the house was built in 1800 and that his
grandfather bought it at the beginning of 1900. His grandmother settled there

permanently in 1947, after her husband died.

B. Legends

There are three most known legends about

this house:

1. Passion and betrayal

It is said that a man of Japanese origin lived with his wife and his two children.
One day he found his wife with another man in his bed. He was furious and
desperate. He took a knife and murdered his wife and her lover. Then when his
children arrived killed them and he killed himself, ending his life.

2. Social justice

This legend tells that in this

house lived a very perverse
man who constantly
mistreated his two servants.
One day the man had a
dinner with guests in his house.
The servants decided to take revenge putting drugs in the meals and drinks,
causing them several mental disorders.

The servants hid in the kitchen and when they cameo out saw mutilated bodies,
intestines everywhere and walls stained with blood.

The servants lost their reason ending in the mental hospital in the capital.

3. Curse and witchcraft

It is said that the first owner of the house was a European woman named
Parvaneh Dervaspa, who arrived in Lima in 1753, who was deft in natural
medicine and she could cure the sick. Her neighbors accused her of witchcraft in
the Holy Inquisition. After being tortured she confessed that her power came
from hell and she was condemned to the bonfire.
While she was at the bonfire, she cast a curse on the house where she lived.
This last legend is like the origin of the Matusita house.
C. The truth of the Matusita house

Mr. Ladislao Thierry Tiry and his wife, in 2014, made a first attempt to tear down
the myth that had been fueled by innumerable reports. His version of the myth
goes back to when the house stopped being inhabited and was rented for

business, in 1950.

"After leaving her, a guard who drank a lot remained in the house. On weekends,
at night, he climbed the stairs with a chain. These strange noises gave rise to the
myth, "says Ladislao, who does not believe in the ghosts of Matusita because he

spent countless dawns there without strange things happening.

D. End of the legend of the house matusita

The Matusita store (which occupied the first floor of the house for fifty years) had
to close in 2005 due to business problems. That same year, a bank leased the
property and installed one of its agencies. This worked until, in 2016, the

Municipality of Lima declared that the house was a danger.

The owner, Mr. Ladislao Thierry Tiry, and the bank that leased it agreed to
restore the first level and demolish the legendary second floor, to rebuild it with
lightened material.