Stories cemetery of La Plata (Part II) last month published the first part and today I leave the continuation of the history of the cemetery of La Plata, written by Olga B. flowers in their publication Anecdotes and myths involving dead ... and living . Thanks again to Yoti for the photo :-)
Back from the dead
In the first 
decades of the century past, an employee warned that one of the vaults had a drawer on the floor. In an attempt to find out what happened, removed the lid and found the body, died the previous day, scratched, beaten and chip debris between the nail in the coffin. It was a replica of the worst nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe literary, a doctor confirmed that the man, who suffered from epilepsy, died of cardiac arrest, but after a few hours, his heart had returned to work, to return to stop in a desperate attempt to escape from his dreary confinement.
customs Rare
They say, for several years, a woman went to the cemetery with a radio playing increasingly Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. One afternoon, one of the employees spoke with her and told her that turn on the device next to the grave, to hear his father, who was a fan of "Lobo." He also lit a cigarette, because when he played her love box smoked a lot.
observatory lost statues 
The Paseo del Bosque is the Astronomical Observatory of La Plata , which began to be built in 1884 under the leadership of Francisco Beuf French astronomer who collaborated in the construction Ng in the design with architect Benoit.
Its construction was completed a few years d
fter, but strangely in the main building APARE never Cieron the six sculptures contained in the original project. Currently there are only empty niches can see the names of scientists who were to be honored: Johannes Kepler , Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei , Pierre Simon Laplace , François Arago and Urbain Le Verrier.
For many years 
nobody knew anything about these sculptures, and various legends arose there. One of them said that the statues had been shipwrecked along to ba rco that brought Europe, where windows were also transported to the Cathedral. The other claimed that the ship had run aground in Uruguay, where they were landed pa ra definitely stay there. Thanks to research recently s , was able to solve this enigma. We found documents indicating that Beuf had commissioned works by French sculptor Henri Allouard , who accepted the job and sent sketches of how they would be. But then the director of the observatory was killed and the new authorities will respond to Alloard not have the money to pay the sculptures, so they were never brought to La Plata .
After finding these documents along with the sketches submitted by Allou ard, was created "Project Beuf "to find artists who could n perform the missing pieces in the building of the observatory. Consultations were many sculptors to make this work or whose proposals f hey were included among the projects that have the faculty Academic Council.
Deputy then some of the letters were found and helped to dispel the legends of the sculptures (click on each for larger view):
- Allouard letter to the director of the observatory:
Paris, 1 October 1902
Mr. Director
In addition 
the letter that Mr. Fressinez Observatory Paris
must have written these days about the decoration of the Astronomical Observatory of La Plata, I would write these lines. I send
included here, photographs of small esquicios he had done at the request of his predecessor, Mr. Beuf. There are more than just pr Ojects those who should not be given too much importance. The figures would 2m.50cm high, including the socket, because if I remember correctly the niches are 3m high. These figures would cost
In bright white marble 13500F each
In bronze 9000F
In hard stone 11000F
in soft stone 10000F The packaging is included in the price.
The statues chosen by Mr. Beuf, were those of Newton, Laplace, Keppler, Arago, Galileo and Le Verrier.
If you decide to encargármelas, I would be grateful, Lord, send me precisely how the niches with their exact measurements.
Waiting for your reply, I beg you Mr. Director, accept my highest consideration.
Mr. Allonard
- Charter of Paris for the director of the observatory:
Paris, 12 October 1907.
Sir,
In response to the desire that 
you saw fit to express, to know what he had projected his predecessor, Mr. Beuf, for exterior decoration of the Observatory of La Plata , I have the honor to convey the following information. had been agreed to be acquired 6 statues, for it had been requested esquicios prices and a very talented French sculptor, Mr. Allonard, residing in Paris, on the street Vavin No. 28 bis.
personally very close to Mr. Beuf, I appeared with him in the e studio of the sculptor, and it was clear that the order of the statues concerned, it would do to an artist who had already submitted the esquicios of the 6 statues.
The height of the statues should be of 2.50 m, including the socket, since the height of the niches are had reported 3 meters.
The price of each statue in white marble of good quality clear, he had noticed 13.500F, including packaging, that is, in round numbers for the 6 statues: 80,000 francs. In bronze, the price quoted was 9.000F each, including packaging.
If you had the intention to take up this matter with Mr. Allonard, should send the plan and profile of niches and to contact him. It is an outstanding artist, who won here, the top honors, was President of the Jury at the Exhibition, is an officer of the Legion of Honor and offers the best guarantees in all reports.
Mr. Allonard could also send the esquicios had under consideration Mr. Beuf, still possesses. It was, if memory does not betray me, to represent Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Laplace, Arago.
Kindly, Sir, consider me at your disposal and accept my highest consideration.
[Signature] Secretary of the Paris Observatory.
F. For the Lord Porro di Somenzi,
Director of the Astronomical Observatory of La Plata.
- Note that the power is without funds to purchase the sculptures:
March 9, 1909.
N
or disposing of 
funds for the purpose expressed
FILED
Photos:
1. Empty niches in the observatory if the statues, which are absent.
2. Photos of the sketches of statues, sent more than 100 years (from left to right and top to bottom: Arago, Galileo, Kepler, Laplace, La Verrier, Newton)
3. Letter to the director of the observatory Allouard
4. Charter of Paris for the director of the observatory.
5. Note that the power is without funds to purchase the sculptures.
Sources:
"mysterious sculptures in the observatory, Hoy
"The Mystery of the sculptures", La Plata Magic
Page Museum of Astronomy and Geophysics, UNLP
The mystery of the piano This story is a publication that was made in the newspaper Today, over one of the stories he tells Ramón D. Tarruella in his book "Myths and legends La Plata "
The following legend took place, say, in the quiet town of La Plata City Bell. Among the birds chirping and the soft whine of the trees swaying in the wind, appeared in a strange family neighborhood that catches the attention of neighbors.
movie seemed out of a World War II. All four were very white and they looked like refugees from Eastern Europe. The woman with a black scarf on his head, the husband robust, front, carrying two large suitcases and two small children, frail and frightened, carrying small bags and taken from the iron hands of her mother.
The striking family settled in a modest house with private entrance and courtyard car in Boston Street, in an era where there were many vacant lots and Bell City had not yet at its best the opulence of the mansions and villas contemporaries.
"There were times when a Boston street between 1 and 4 was called 'the suburb'. Just two drops fell and the area became a mud, flooded corners and frequent power outages, "said Ramon Tarruella, who developed a local legend in his book Myths and Legends of La Plata, urban Brief histories.
After settling in "the suburbs", the presence of this remarkable family began to elicit comments on of the neighborhood residents. Some said they were Nazis who escaped from the war, some speculated that they were members of the nomadic gypsy nation, other, somewhat frightened, said they were members of a cult.
neighbors' comments were as plentiful as few movements of the family. As known, the father worked from dawn to dusk and rarely, if ever, was at home. The woman, always dressed in black rigorous old-fashioned clothes, took a hard look and behave hermit. Children, a boy and a girl, like two angels white with a fragile temper-style porcelain. By order of the mother never took to the streets, which triggered the intrigue of the neighborhood boys.
Every so often, between the curtains covering the front windows of the house, hover through the snowy face of the boy in the house. His eyes bulging, expression trembling and scary and occasionally looked at the boys while playing in the street. This striking watch
aroused the curiosity of the boys, who, because they look pale and trembling, he immediately thought he was possessed by the devil or been vampirized by an evil force.
One afternoon, while the boys were playing on the sidewalk, began to be heard in the distance the muffled sound of a piano. It was a wonderful melody, hypnotic, who managed to stop the football games that evening to go in search of the sound source.
As drawn by a magnet, the guys were moving up to the gate the strange house that housed the most unusual family in the neighborhood. They discovered that the performer of such increases was lovely chords and the girl's house that killed his hours of confinement playing incredible melodies full of expression and feeling.
No missing kid on the block that is not secretly in love with this little princess dreaming foreign release of sentenced confinement. On the odd
family said they were Nazis, members of a sect of evil or to aliens who were carrying out a secret mission citybelina. Rumors continued
increase, but one day, without anyone noticing, the family left the house. From the outside only looked a renault 12 without the four decks and heard the barking of a dog sign on the back of the house.
"Time passed and the house remained closed, the piano in silence, the car in the same place and the family still missing. We no longer were heard barking dog, "he said Tarruella.
The neighborhood kids decided to go to the back of the house to see if they had taken the dog. Moved forward slowly until a foul smell alerted of what had happened to that animal. When they reached the backyard they found the dog in a complete state of decomposition, wormy, and still tied to the chain could never come loose.
"They were just Nazis. Clearly, the Nazis hate the dogs, so he explains what they did to this poor pooch, "said a distraught old neighbor.
Since that day, the abandoned house became a meeting place everyday. Using the entire surface of the surrounding courtyard to play, but never entered the house.
One day, amidst a quiet afternoon when no one heard but the chirping of birds, the sound of a siren altered the gentleness of the area.
A crew of firefighters was present in "the suburbs" and went straight to the abandoned house that had been refuge from the strange family. Front housing were located from the neighborhood and saw flames consumed everything.
Some time later, the boys went back to the house. They went room by room and watched the fire had burned everything. But to get to a room, an unexpected blood froze the present: the grand piano, the same that she could get sweet phrasing, was in perfect condition. The fire had destroyed everything, ignored the instrument and left intact the memory of the melodies that played the girl and her strange and mysterious family.
Sources:
"Myths and legends of La Plata, Ramon D. Tarruella
"The eternal melody of the piano ", Journal Times, 18/3/2007
" A strange family that disappeared, "Diario Hoy, 31/1/2010
Draining Lake 
Today I leave a 
small curiosity that I read about the Lake Forest: During 1964, the lake found there was completely emptied by court order, as they wanted a weapon with which a homicide had occurred. Eventually could not be found in the muddy bottom, which was visible only broken bottles and rusty cans. Sources:
page "The Silver Magic"
"concerned about pollution of lakes La Plata", Diario Hoy, 28/7/2010
decades of the century past, an employee warned that one of the vaults had a drawer on the floor. In an attempt to find out what happened, removed the lid and found the body, died the previous day, scratched, beaten and chip debris between the nail in the coffin. It was a replica of the worst nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe literary, a doctor confirmed that the man, who suffered from epilepsy, died of cardiac arrest, but after a few hours, his heart had returned to work, to return to stop in a desperate attempt to escape from his dreary confinement. 
