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Spend a night with the dead in Lima cemetery

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A woman examines niches with a flashlight as she takes a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery.

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A performer dramatizes a historic event during a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima. The 54-acre cemetery is just 20 blocks from the presidential palace.

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People use a flashlight as they take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. There are tombs of popular saints the Vatican doesn't recognize.

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A cross stands in the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery during a nighttime guided tour in Lima. The cemetery, created by one of the last Spanish viceroys, was established outside the walls of old Lima.

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Visitors to a 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to creepy tales during a three-hour, nighttime guided tour. "There have been 220,000 burials since the 19th century. Are there tormented souls?" asks tour guide Guben Chaparro. "Yes, there are souls, above all at night."