Orlita Romero Gómez. The Bride of the General Cemetery

There are many urban versions  about the death of this Chilean bride, one is that while she was getting married she rolled down the stairs of the (altar), another says that she died  of a heart attack  during the wedding, and finally that she died of grief  because her fiance never came to the altar so everybody  says that she stiil is wandering to look for  her love.

However, the official version of her death is different, Orlita dies of a heart attack on April 13, 1947 when she was 17. Her mother  very sad and affected for her death command to embalm her to preserve her beauty and dressed her with  a white dress as a symbol of purity.

The sad mother every sundays used to comb the hair of the deceased . At first she was in a glass case, but for obvious reasons, over the years her image has deteriorated.

Currently, Orlita is in the same chapel. the iron door had a glass and there you could see inside including her urn, Nowadays there is a curtain that hide inside an the glass has been broken by the people who leave insie little notes, ties, cards, notebooks, etc. The lovers leave their names written in papers to orlita keep their union forever clearly, has become in (animita) for lovers and also for the unfortunate who wish that their luck in love change.

Ioana Katenka...