3 Urban Legends of Buenos Aires
The dead end maze of Parque Chas
It is strictly forbidden to go to the block of Berna, Marseille, The Hague and Geneva streets. If someone dares to turn around, they will appear anywhere else in the Parque Chas neighborhood, except where they should.
The story goes that in 1957 a group of French explorers accepted the challenge and, after trying, they appeared in Villa Urquiza, a neighborhood located 3 kilometers away. Again, some Catalan urban planners formed two teams and walked in the opposite direction with the idea that they would meet in the middle. It was not like that: after a few long minutes, one of the groups appeared walking behind the other.
The legend was born in a story by the writer Alejandro Dolina, who talks about this characteristic neighborhood for its difficult layout of circular streets and concludes by saying: "Actually, it is advisable not to go near Parque Chas.
The curse of the College of Engineering
Not all that glitters is gold and not all monumental works have happy stories. The current Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires began to be built in 1912 under the orders of the renowned engineer Arturo Prins. Accurate and obsessive, he aimed to build the most surprising neo-Gothic building in the city.
Everything started very well until in 1938, when the first stage of construction had already been completed, work was mysteriously stopped. Some spoke that the costs had exceeded what was budgeted and others that the plans had a calculation error that, if the work continued, it would end in a collapse.
Prins died a year later and the gossip claims that he decided to commit suicide because he could not bear the mistake he made. In the 1950s, a student wanted to take up the project and put together a thesis to continue it. Not only was it not carried out, it was never received. From that moment on, no one else dared to continue the building that is on Las Heras avenue, in the Recoleta neighborhood , imposing and unfinished.
The monster of the Ecological Reserve
A mysterious creature lives in this 350-hectare green space and no one knows when it will appear again. Different stories throughout the years speak of a mammal with the size of a dog and the characteristics of a rat.
They say it is a coypu, the otter-like animal that lives on the banks of the river. He was first heard of was in 1986, days after the Reserve was inaugurated . Among so many flora and fauna, it is difficult to recognize all the species and no one dares to make a complete diagnosis. Thus was born the legend of "Reservito", which according to different testimonies, feeds on human flesh and persecutes those who walk quietly.
Youth groups have organized more than once to confront it, but they have never been successful. With no body finds or unexplained disappearances, “Reservito” did enough to appear and disappear without being documented.
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