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If you have abandonment issues, you might very well relate to these houses on our list
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More than houses, these beyond-extra mansions, abandoned by millionaires for one reason or
another, will definitely freak you out.
Here is our pick of the top 10 creepy mansions abandoned by millionaires!
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10.
Wyckoff Villa, Thousand Islands, New York [Movie trailer voice] From the guy who brought
you Remington typewriters, comes the abandoned Wyckoff Villa Mansion in Thousand Islands,
New York.
[returns to regular voice] The story of this home is full of death and sadness despite
the popularity and success of the Remington typewriter and following success of many who
would use them, like Agatha Christie!
The home was built in 1894, but Wyckoff didn’t get to enjoy it much, dying on his very first
night in the home of a heart attack.
A month prior, his wife had died of cancer.
Though his son inherited it, he didn’t spend much time there, I mean who would want to?
For the past sixty years it has just sat there.
9.
Chaonei No. 81, Beijing, China Known as Chaonei No. 81, and completed in
1910, this house was reportedly built by the Qing imperial family as a church for British
residents of Beijing.
After the Communists defeated the Nationalists in the civil war in 1949, a high-ranking Nationalist
official who was living there is said to have deserted his wife, and fled to Taiwan in the
process.
The woman was so devastated that she hung herself from the rafters of the three-story
mansion.
Local residents believe that her spirit has haunted the abandoned home ever since.
8.
Villa de Vecchi, Lake Como, Italy If the story of this mansion were a horror
film, it would go like this: A 19th Century Count (Felix de Vecchi) played - in my imaginary
movie - by Harrison Ford - hires the best Architect around (Alessandro Sidoli) played
by Oscar Isaac to make his dream family home.
He and his family choose picturesque Lake Como in Italy.
However, Oscar Isaac dies before he finishes, which is already a bad omen.
The family finds some nameless actor - I mean architect - to finish the construction and
move in.
Things seem to be fine until on a regular day, the Count returns home to a gruesome
murder site.
His wife has been killed, his daughter is gone, and what does he do?
He kills himself, of course.
His brother was the sole heir of that mansion and some relatives lived in it on and off
until WWII, but after the 1960s it was left empty, probably because things happened in
there that if I added them to my movie they’d seem like too much.
For one, the grand piano supposedly played at night all on its own.
In the end, the mansion’s neighbors were hit by an avalanche in 2002, and it made it
through, abandoned, and mysterious.
7.
Lui Family Mansion The Lui Family Mansion, or Minxiong Ghost
House, is in the Taiwanese countryside and holds a truly dark, sad story.
Isn’t that true of all haunted places?
Sad stories that refuse to leave?
The family that once lived here fled in the 1950s and left little explanation as to why.
So, as it happens, people started making conjectures.
Some said the family maid was having an affair with the man of the house, Liu Rong-Yu, and
that when the secret was out she jumped down a well.
Chinese Kuomintang soldiers, also known as KMT, took over the house years later and purportedly
saw many suicides there among their own, which just either made the house more haunted or
made the stories around it scarier.
Regardless of its actual historical past, the house has a vibe that neighbors have no
interest in getting involved with.
6.
The Los Feliz Murder House You might live in Los Feliz and not realize
this is a thing!
Well, maybe not, but if you don’t live there and you’ve never heard of it, get an earful
of this.
The inventor of a new kind of syringe, Dr. Harold Perelson, and his family supposedly
lived very happily here.
That is until the night of December 6th, 1959, when Harold bludgeoned his wife in her sleep
with a ball-peen hammer.
Afterward, he tried to kill all three of his children, then drank acid to kill himself.
It seems that after his successful invention, he was somehow left out of the rights which
maybe led to the violence.
The house was sold to another family who apparently used it for storage, then sold it to a couple
who had plans to fix it up but never did, putting it up for sale again.
Nobody wants to live there and I bet I know why… what do you think?
5.
John List House Another family murder house.
John List might not be a millionaire but his abandoned house is definitely haunted.
You know when you’re a kid and you walk into a friend’s house but they just got
in some serious trouble and you can feel the tension in the air?
Imagine that instead of a spanking, there was just a murder.
THAT, my friend, is what you feel in a murder house.
Tension times a million.
The List house holds the horrible story of a man named John who killed his wife, mother,
and two children.
He took all the bodies but his mother’s and lined them up in the ballroom, turned
the radio to a religious station, stopped to cut his face from a family photo and ran
away.
He had been in Denver using a false name for a full month when his family was discovered.
He even married another woman there before he was caught in 1989.
He started a whole new life and even after being caught never admitted anything.
The original house was burned down and another one built just like it.
They may be different hallways and rooms, but the horror still hasn't escaped that land.
4.
‘Swingers Tiki Palace’, Tennessee, US Normally, haunted houses take on much scarier
names than “The Swingers Tiki Palace,” right?
Don’t let the name fool you.
This 1972 party spot was the ultimate place to be at 5600 sq feet with 3 bedrooms, 4.5
bathrooms, and lots of open space.
It’s a shame its owner, Billy Hull, a strip-club tycoon, didn’t get to enjoy it more, after
being caught for tax evasion.
Despite having hosted a variety of happy times around the 12-foot deep Playboy bunny pool,
the house remained empty for decades and later became vandalized, as he sat in prison.
Suddenly it’s not so attractive anymore and it looks like the setting of a slasher
film.
3.
Ha Ha Tonka Mansion From the facade, you’d think this place
was in Europe.
These Castle-like ruins now only faintly resemble the home of Robert Snyder, a man whose Barbie
Dream House looked more like a Game of Thrones castle.
It was actually in Missouri and has a bit of an unfortunate story.
He never finished building it, having started construction in 1905 and dying in an accident
before it was complete.
His sons tried to live there, taking over the construction, but the land rights lawsuits
surrounding the property broke the family.
It was turned into a hotel in 1942 and later destroyed by a fire.
The state of Missouri has attempted to restore it, but the nightmare that came of Snyder’s
dream home is mostly in ruins now.
2.
Elda Castle, Ossining, New York Crazy to think what the death of a homeowner
can do.
It really can turn a whole house into an abandoned, scary place.
In fact, speaking of castles, here’s the one built by David T. Abercrombie and his
wife, Lucy Abbott Cate.
That Abercrombie?
Yes, of Abercrombie and Fitch.
The castle, equipped with 25 bedrooms, fell to decay after the couple died and people
broke in to vandalize it.
They’d set fires, pour paint on the marble floors, and was so badly destroyed that now,
sitting on the market at $3.5 million, it still requires a full renovation before it’s
liveable again.
1.
The LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans, Louisiana On to Louisiana.
This next-level French creole mansion from the South was owned by a Miss Marie Delphine
Lalaurie, a socialite who loved to party.
This 19th Century lady enjoyed gourmet everything: food, champagne, but there was something not
so nice going on in her house - and it wasn’t just a stack of laundry like it is at your
place.
Police came to the house after a kitchen fire in 1834 and found, in the attic, the bodies
of several horribly mutilated slaves.
The public was outraged and she fled.
Still, her neighbors reported hearing faint screams coming from the house at night.
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There was a big haunted house in the neighborhood I grew up in … well, at least until we found
out it was being used by homeless people.
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