Brazil's First Family Driven Away From Residence By 'Ghosts'
Brazilian President Michel Temer has moved out of Alvorada Palace, his official residence, just 10 days after moving in. The reason: ghosts. The 76-year-old leader of the Latin American country is convinced the presidential palace is haunted.
"I felt something strange there. I wasn't able to sleep right from the first night. The energy wasn't good," Temer, holder of a doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University in Sao Paulo, said. "Marcela felt the same thing," he added, referring to his 33-year-old former beauty queen wife.
"Only Michelzinho, who went running from one end to the other, liked it," Temer told Veja magazine adding, "We even started to wonder: could there be ghosts?" The president even hired a priest to perform an exorcism but failed to drive away the evil spirits, RT reported.
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Built in 1958, the cavernous Alvorada Palace has a swimming pool, helipad, a vast lawn and a chapel. It was designed by famous architect Oscar Niemeyer as a modernist building, according to Premiere.
Before Temer's family moved in, minor changes had to be made considering his 7-year-old son was the first child to live there since the 1960s. Safety features had to be installed including a $6,000 protective screen on the upper balcony.
Despite all these luxurious amenities, Temer didn't feel at home. "The president did not like it, it felt very cold," one of the 160 palace aides told Vega magazine. The first family has moved back to the smaller but still lavish Jaburu Palace, the vice president's residence, where they had been staying since 2011.
Temer had been the vice president until his predecessor Dilma Rousseff was impeached in August last year due to a corruption scandal. The former president was accused of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars from construction firms doing business with state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
