The Ghost of Iacobelli's House (Parma, Italy)


House number 15, Via Biagio Pelacani in Parma, Italy, is called "Iacobelli's House" and it is said to be haunted. The apparition screams and an invisible writer scribbles things on the inside walls of the house. There was a history of insanity (Dementia Percox) in the family that used to live there.

The house was built around 1900. It is a large, yellow, rambling home with a garden like a jungle. There were three sisters who lived in the house: Concettina (who died in the 1950's), Maria (who died in the 1970's) and Giuseppina (who died in 1993).

There is some suspicion that Giuseppina was a serial murderer but the local police could not be convinced because of lack of evidence. One private investigator (M.B.) believes there are corpses of the murder victims hidden in the house. The house was used for 6 months in 1992 to house Ignazio Sciuto, a witness in a case against the Mafia.


Contributed by Dr Gian Guido Zurli
Dr Zurli is a journalist and a detective and can be reached at zurli@mbox.vol.it
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