Where tortured souls groan in the night

She isn't one of the tormented dead, but a girl who's very much alive. She's sitting on a tomb at Lima's Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery, which received its first body in 1808.

Where tortured souls groan in the night

The cemetery has a special wall of niches for the obese, another wall for people who have taken their own lives. In one niche, a poet was buried feet first, at his own request.

Where tortured souls groan in the night

LIMA, Peru - When Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima received its first body in 1808, the best plots went to the elite, unless the noble had been dishonored or disgraced.

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