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On this day in 1919 Eva Peron was born. There is nothing particularly Fortean about the former Argentinean first lady in life but if you are interested in morbid and creepy things then what happened to her body after her death is quite interesting. I warn you before you read further that some of this will probably make you feel quite unwell so please skip to the news if you are of a nervous disposition or eating.
By the time of Eva’s death she had attained an almost saintly status among the Argentinean people, particularly among the workers, so it was a given that there would have to be some sort of lasting memorial to her. Her husband, Argentinean leader Juan Peron, opted not just for an imposing shrine but to preserve her corpse for public display in a similar manner to Lenin in Russia. As soon as she had died Dr Pedro Ara replaced Eva’s blood with glycerine, which resulted in a completely incorruptible corpse that was then publicly displayed.
However, Juan Peron was deposed before work on Eva’s mausoleum was completed, leaving the new government with the problem of what to do with Eva’s body. She was kept for a time in a wardrobe in an army major’s house before he killed his wife, and there are stories that he may have operated the corpse like a marionette and even interfered with it in a sexual manner. After the murder the corpse was shipped to Milan and buried under an assumed name. The body was returned to Juan Peron in 1971 and he kept the body in an open casket on his dining room table and had his new wife regularly lie atop it to channel Eva’s spirit and comb her hair regularly. Eventually, after Juan Peron’s death, his new wife had Eva flown back to Argentina where she was buried in Buenos Aires.
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(Now, who of you didn’t guess that would be today’s pun?)
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