We’ve just arrived from Taipei off a bus.
We’re about a half hour outside of the city right now
come to explore what’s known here as the ‘Abandoned UFO Village.’
Let me repeat: Abandoned UFO Village.
I have a lot more questions about this place than I have answers
but we’re going to go inside and see what we can find.
It’s already looking quite abandoned on the walk up here.
It’s very abandoned feeling.
And we don’t know where we’re going to be totally honest but we’re just winging it.
Gonna look for some abandoned-looking UFOs.
Ok, well, UFO sighted on the ground.
Can you see that yellow looking structure right ahead?
That’s our first glimpse of the UFO village.
I am absolutely fascinated.
Like it’s…we haven’t even really got inside but just approaching it like it’s…fascinating.
I’m kind of speechless to be honest because it really is totally untouched looking
and I’m not seeing really anyone else around.
And I…I don’t understand how it’s not really even on the map.
But it’s here.
It’s strange.
This, by the way, is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in Taiwan
if not the most haunted place in Taiwan so we will keep that in mind.
See if we find some ghosts.
Oh my god!
Ok so I stuck my head inside the window and just here that’s the door.
As you can see, it looks like an airplane door which, I think, is how they’re intended to be designed.
They go all the way wrapped around.
Wow.
Look at the old TV.
I just wanted to show you what underneath one of these UFOs, as we’re calling them, looks like.
It’s floating, just hovering there above the ground.
Looks like it used to be maybe a picnic table.
I don’t even know where to start with this place because it’s so cool and I’m just dying to keep exploring
but first I wanted to give you a little bit of background context
and tell you what I do know about the Abandoned UFO Village.
This crazy place has a bit of a mysterious background
and so what’s believed is that this was intended to be a holiday resort by the water.
We’re right on the water here.
You can see my hair is all full of salt water already within a few minutes.
It’s a great surf spot and so this was a place to come to relax.
The construction started in 1978
and during the two years that it was being built - and there were people around -
a lot of weird things were happening
and so there were these inexplicable car accidents, there was at least one suicide that occurred
from, I believe, the construction workers who were spending a lot of time on this land.
And as far as I can tell and, again, it’s shrouded in mystery -
there’s not a lot of information about this - one day people just left.
So around 1980 this place was just a ghost town
and it has that kind of eerie feeling of a gold rush town that was just abandoned overnight.
And there’s no information about why people left and why it’s never been used again.
Ever.
I mean it’s years, decades later and there’s still nobody here.
I mean I think there are maybe some squatters living here now and then but
this place is totally abandoned.
The theories that I’ve heard about why it was abandoned
and why all of these bad things kept happening
is number one that this was a burial ground for Dutch soldiers.
70,000 Dutch soldiers.
Taiwan used to be a Dutch colony and so this is believed to be a burial ground
and the idea being that the spirits that were here didn’t want this ground occupied,
especially by a holiday resort.
The other is that there used to be a ceremonial Chinese dragon near the entranceway to the build site
and the decision was made somewhere along the way to tear it down
to have easier access to the construction zone
and that, of course, brings very bad luck.
Dragons are a very important symbol in Chinese culture
and they represent good fortune and so to destroy one is seriously bad luck.
And so those are the two most likely theories that keep occurring when I’m looking up research.
But the most fascinating thing about this UFO Village
is that people can’t seem to agree on whether it exists or not, including newspapers.
I have read so many sources telling me that this entire village was demolished in 2010
and that not a trace is left.
It looks like there’s some left to me.
It looks like the entire thing is left.
So let’s go look around more.
Here’s an example of where I think people might actually be living as squatters
because the gate is closed
and it does not look like they want you to go inside there.
So maybe somebody’s still living in this one.
As you’re walking around, you can still see some places where there used to be a structure
and I don’t know why it’s not there anymore.
This one looks like it really did just vanish because most of the tiles on top there look to be intact.
But it looks like there was a house there.
This is the perfect spot in the village to show you the two different types of pod houses here.
They’re both made by the same Finnish architect.
This one is more square in shape - they’re called Venturo houses -
and then these ones are my absolute favourite.
They are called Futuro houses and they look like flying saucers
and when I was peeking my head inside the window of one
you can see that the furniture is specially designed and built to go inside
because it’s hard to furnish a circular house.
It’s not the kind of thing you can just go to Ikea for
and it really reminded me of Buckminster Fuller-style houses,
which are also circular and have that prefabricated design
and they’re elevated off the ground and these Futuro houses, honestly,
the way they’re sitting on the stilts,
it looks like a flying saucer could’ve very well just come down from the sky and rested there.
So as I’m walking along the street here
it looks like there were three UFO type houses here that were actually demolished.
And there’s so much mystery around what’s actually taken place here
but I think that they may have started to demolish these and had more problems and bad luck,
whatever you want to call it, and then just stopped.
And that’s why this land has never been touched, it’s never been redeveloped.
There was one plan at some point to build here again,
to redevelop the land as a beach resort again, from what I understand, and nobody will touch it.
Nobody.
So the door of this Futuro house is just blown right out and you can peek inside.
Some of the windows are blown out too.
So here’s the living room, the old television there,
and then that was the kitchen there in the centre,
and then if I pan to the right, through there you can see there’s a bedroom
and then on the other side is the bathroom.
I especially like this house behind me because it looks like whoever lives here now
built their current house around the UFO house
and it’s kind of hard to tell from the front here that’s facing the water,
but you get a little hint if you look at the second floor balcony
you can see that there’s like curved windows.
But if you look at the back you can definitely see the butt end
of a UFO sticking out the back of this house.
It’s a really good idea and what I find even more interesting about this place
is that if you look over here there’s quite a large apartment building
and on the other side there’s what looks to be a very large beach resort with people going in and out.
And this is very - I’m guessing - valuable property.
I mean this is prime real estate on the beach.
There’s these beautiful, lush green hills on either side.
It’s a prime surf location.
I mean that’s why this beach resort was intended to be here in the first place, right?
And there’s people living on either side but nobody has touched this land in the middle.
It’s been decades.
And there were plans at some point, I believe, to redevelop this land and they were scrapped
and I just can’t understand why people left in the first place
and then why nobody has built here since on this prime section of the beach in Taiwan.
I just…it’s mindblowing.
I really don’t understand and it’s killing me that I can’t figure it out and I can’t find anyone to ask.
So I guess we’ll never know.
Marc seems to think that a tree growing in the doorway is going to stop us.
You just go around the tree.
Oh man, it really is low.
Ooh aah I’m stuck.
Ok I made it.
Oh my god!
Your backpack’s gonna get stuck like mine except yours is way bigger.
Nice.
Made it.
Look inside.
Whoa!
Oh my god.
This one’s trashed.
A lot of these houses the insides are fairly well preserved but this one
has just been laid waste to.
I don’t know if you can see in the middle there - right there, the yellow -
that is the door.
I’m currently standing in the doorway.
The door should be where I am, instead it’s in the middle of the house,
and then just to the right of there if you look closely you can see the ground.
So the middle of the floor here has actually just fallen out.
What goes up, must come down.
Good luck.
Gonna be tricky.
It doesn’t help having a drone strapped to your back.
No.
Ok.
Hey, that’s pretty good.
Yeah, I got poked by the tree but nothing…nothing too bad.
It’s so cool to see in that last house especially how the bottom has dropped out
and the trees just come in.
I mean this place has been abandoned since 1980.
The wind maybe has blown in the doors, the windows, and the trees just move right in.
This looks like another house where the trees just seem to be taking over.
I don’t know where that drill sound is coming from.
I kind of want to go take a look but it looks… this one looks a little sketchy.
So the whole side of this house is gone.
Actually two sides.
This place has seen better days.
It’s all collapsed.
Wow, yeah, the roof has just come right in.
There’s the bathroom.
Not very private.
That is a bathtub with a view.
Somebody still lives in this house.
The mattress is out on the lawn but there's the closet, you can see the kitchen over there,
and the TV is on the sofa.
So we are finding out that this Abandoned UFO Village might not be so abandoned after all.
I don’t know if you can see behind me the Volkswagen parked right by the flying saucer?
I just spoke to a man there and I said, ‘Do you live here?’
and, you know, ‘Do you sleep here?’
and he said yes and he’s fixing it up and he let me take a peek inside
and he’s got like paint cans and it looks like he’s not only living there
but he’s kind of fixing it up and it looks lovely inside.
So I guess this abandoned place…
I mean people are coming in and they aren’t afraid about ghosts or a destroyed Chinese dragon
or 70,000 dead Dutch soldiers buried here possibly
and it’s become this kind of little community.
So I’ve seen him there - I’ve only spoken to him -
but I did see a couple of other people who look like they were maybe residents here.
So it’s kind of cool to see that it’s not so abandoned after all.
What do you see there?
It’s a photograph.
You see a photograph?
Yeah, it’s of a couple.
Does anyone know who these people are?
Look at that cool sofa.
It’s really cool - and these chairs.
And there’s like an old TV there, reminds me of the TV from my childhood.
You can see how the mattress looks pretty good until you look down and see the floor
and it looks like the bed frame has just disintegrated.
It’s got those 1970s colours: oranges and greens.
This is the drawer in everyone’s kitchen that you need to reorganize.
That is such a cool washer.
I’m glad to know that if I’m ever in a typhoon or something,
I’m probably safest on the toilet.
That makes me think of Jurassic Park.
Oh yeah!
Isn’t there a scene where the dinosaur takes him off the…?
Yeah.
What if that happened here?
Let’s just hope it wasn’t a dinosaur that ripped the roof off that thing.
What? You found another toilet?
Yeah, it’s perfectly framed.
We have been walking around this Abandoned UFO Village for hours
and I even though I still really don’t understand the many mysteries about this place,
I actually think now that that’s a big part of its charm.
And I can confirm that this place does exist.
No matter what you read, it is here.
It was not demolished and I’ve just had such a good time walking around here.
I hope that you have too.
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I gotta catch the drone.
Be right back.