Casa de Dona Yayá
- Date of account
- House occupied by Sebastiana de Mello Freire from 1920; heritage interpretation later
- Location
- Bela Vista, São Paulo
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Casa de Dona Yayá is a São Paulo house associated with Sebastiana de Mello Freire, who lived there under guardianship after being diagnosed with mental illness. Its isolation, medicalized domestic history and preserved architecture have generated stories of haunting and emotional atmosphere. The site matters for comparing psychiatric confinement, gender, heritage conservation and the cultural production of haunted places. Sebastiana’s residence and the property’s institutional history are documented, but particular apparitions and “unexplained” phenomena are largely retrospective or tour-based.
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