Recoleta Cemetery #3

One tomb shows a statue of a young woman with her hand on the door opening the mausoleum.  The story is that she was engaged to be married, and her fiancé worked for her dad (something military; it was difficult to take notes in the cemetery).  Anyhow, the daughter finds out that her mother was having an affair with her fiancé.  When the daughter learned this, she became catatonic – breathing and heart rate very difficult to find, especially given medical treatment at the time.  They assumed that she was dead and buried her.
 
The cemetery caretaker heard something in the night (turns out she woke up and was trying to get out of the zinc part of the casket), went and told the family but by the time they got there and opened it up, she had suffocated.  Evidence of her trying to get out was found inside the zinc liner, and this led to the construction of the vault showing her able to open the door. 

Originally, she was buried (alive) in the section on the left.  After the "unfortunate" incident of being buried alive, the family built the monument of the daughter with her hand on the doorway to heaven on the right.



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