Case file · Haunting
The girl in the taxi, Belém
Belém's best-known ghost story tells of Josephina Conte, a young woman buried in 1931 in the Santa Izabel cemetery, who hails taxis at night and gives an address that turns out to be the cemetery.
1931 CE · -1.47, -48.46 · status: legend
The account
The story was popularised by writer Walcyr Monteiro in Visagens e Assombrações de Belém in the 1980s. Her grave receives flowers and requests, as for a popular saint.
The sceptical view
A local version of the worldwide 'vanishing hitchhiker' legend.