Curse or misfortune? Valencia farm that saved nine violent deaths in half a century

Its residents, owners and tenants vehemently reject this term. stigma, they say. And they are right. There are also suicides and accidental deaths in many neighboring communities and this there is only certainty of murder in one of the deaths this Edilene Oliveiraa woman 32 years old Brazilianwho was thrown down the stairwell by a prostitute caused his death at the scene in the early morning hours of March 1, 2012, from the fifth floor of the building. But the truth is that the average number of unnatural deaths recorded by that farm is very unusual.

It is a seven-story building with an attic whose balconies seem to be embedded in the typical red brick of houses built during the Franco regime. The estate faces three different roads (in fact, it was listed as Calle Cuenca at number 78 after it was built in 1957). Next to the current number one Tres Forques street, there is a plaque for Benito Pérez Galdós street. The corner can give any novice postman a head-to-head.

superstar of mocambo

The oldest residents of the neighborhood and the building of the farm, built in 1957 and equipped with fifteen dwellingsTwo plus lofts on each floor, almost entirely purchased by Mercedes Viana, owner of the legendary Mocambo Club in Valencia for years. He had been making slushy profits from the city’s most visited entertainment room for years and decided to invest in buying 11 of the 14 floors. there hosted vedettes and cupletistas. One of them, Gracia Imperio, ‘started’ the blacklist of violent deaths.

It was on November 1, 1968. Two days later he premiered a show in Mogambo. That night she had dinner with her tailor and her ex-boyfriend, whom she broke up with two years ago and is still looking for her love. The courier left them alone. the next morning, they found both their bodies in Gracia’s room, 35 years. The gas taps were open and I never knew if crime or an accident. In 2013, almost a year after Edilene Oliveira’s murder, Catalan Francesc Beltriu’s film The Day Gracia Imperio Died, which examines these events, was released.

this near death was an Argentine living on the fourth floor, which threw himself into the street. they would be to him a 18 years old Who died at home from an apparent overdose drugs. Years later they were two younger brothers. They were jumping on the bed and she was thrown out the window. Her brother tried to hold her back and they both fell into the void. These two accidental deaths shocked the neighborhood like several others.

Edlene’s fault

this it was the sixth death suicide He is the brother-in-law of Mercedes Viana, who at that time had already sold a large part of the apartments before the closure of Mocambo. was next Edilene Oliveirawas murdered “for wanting friendship” by the shopkeeper who sent him to the farm early in the morning on March 1, 2012. The murderer, Javier Ochoa, was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison by the Valencian Court a year and a half after the events, in November 2013, the year the film about the tragedy that cost them their lives was shot, Gracia Imperio and her young lover on the same farm.

The last death has ever occurred seven years ago, in 2015. Neighbors called the police because of the heavy smell coming from door 14. When they entered the house, they found a 65-year-old man living alone in the house. dead for days or even weeks. A natural death is something that unfortunately happens in many urban buildings where neighbors take time to notice someone’s absence.

A never ending legend?

All these deaths are over feed a legend resurrected with each new deathEven if it is caused by natural causes, as recorded in 2015. It’s not paranormal, it’s really the curse that haunts your neighbors, to see that they would never stop talking about that property except for the mortality rate. Even a television show that catches the audience swimming in supposedly mysterious waters nets the case of 1 Tres Forques ranch, but as usual it doesn’t come to a conclusion beyond the obvious: the statistics show it particularly brutal. There is no more.