 "Aparecido" is the past participle for the Spanish verb "aparecer" - to appear.Its second meaning is apparition or ghost.It may also refer in an oblique way to Argentina's Dirty War, in which an estimated 30,000 people, "Desaparecidos" were disappeared between 1976 and 1981 by the military junta, many of them thrown from airplanes into the Rio Plate.