Are These Statues Alive? - CoverUps.com

Haunted Statues: Rumor has it that these ancient neoclassical statues are haunted. Though it is common for them to spit water (as their internal structure and mechanisms so elicit) it is uncommon for the water to redirect itself in any direction other than down into the ponds. Moreover, the water shouldn’t come spouting out as if highly pressurized. Nevertheless on rare occasions it has happened that an innocent passerby would become victim to the taunting antics of these two fountains. CoverUps.com did some digging and here is what we discovered. We hope it's enough to ‘wet’ your appetite!

Are these statues alive because they spit?

In 1964 there were thirteen documentations of the beloved Neptune statue ‘attacking people’. As the victims would walk by the statue’s serpentine adornments, they would begin to hiss and the water spout would start violently spraying water in a 360 degree motion directed at the onlooker. With ten of these thirteen incidences occurring in the same week that the renown criminal Don Barbaro Julio Aquadore passed away (his trademark was the underwater break-in burglary), locals believe that it is the restless spirit of the condemned Aquadore that resides in the uncanny statue. Though there have been a handful of incidences since 1964, the ‘victim’ toll has decreased dramatically, and it is only on rare, yet equally surprising occasions that Aquadore rises from his slumber and gives his admirers a little spectacle to behold.

In 1945 a young boy by the name of Cupidito Heraldo Aquamarino died at the hands of a vicious headmaster at his school. The story goes that the boy was of unknown royalty, and, being the last of the secret royal blood line, the boy was a threat to the Pompousario family that owned much of the land of his days. Nevertheless the boy remained a faithfully ardent learner and hard worker, tilling his father’s lands with him every morning until his school lessons began. Apparently the vicious Randolpho Ernesto, Cupidito’s headmaster, was really a Pompousario who was forced to drop his last name after his family ostracized him for his stealing 4 lambs from the family herd and selling them for gambling money. In the guise of Randolpho ‘Ernesto’, Randolpho came to learn of Cupidito’s secret, and began to ruthlessly punish him in unthinkable ways.

Thirteen months after he discovered the truth behind Cupidito’s ability to steal away the power that Randolpho hoped to reacquire, Randolpho drowned the child in the nearby river, thereby ending the Aquamarino bloodline. Apparently upset at the injustice, Cupidito is rumored to haunt this statue, where he will often choose to gush massive onslaughts of water out of his mouth (as you can see here). If you listen closely, you can hear a child’s murmuring cries behind the overbearing sounds of rushing water. Legend has it, when the fountain gushes, it is actually the tears of Cupidito Aquamarino himself.