Exploring abandoned places, houses, mansions, etc., make for the beginning plot of most horror movies. Rightly so, considering the strange and spooky feel they have. But, while it is still unclear if or not ghosts are real, the fact that mansions like these exist is very much so. There are thousands of abandoned homes across the U.S. alone, including lavish estates that now lie in ruins. All those mansions that were not demolished or restored by their new owners still stand tall in all their beautiful antiquated glory with stories behind their fate. Read on to the end to explore four such amazing abandoned mansions across the world.
Casa Sperimentale
Casa Sperimentale is nothing like an image the word “mansion” would draw in a person’s mind. It is instead a beautiful and captivating cluster of geometric shapes that are in the treetops. This abandoned treehouse with brutalist architecture is in Fergene, Italy (a coastal town outside Rome).
As for its history, Casa Sperimentale was built by Giuseppe Perugini, Uga De Plaisant (his wife), and Raynaldo Perugini (their son), in the late 1960s. It was built as both a holiday home and an experiment at the time to see if this brutalist structure was livable or not. But what truly separates and isolates it from the outside world is how it is only accessible through a drawbridge staircase. The current state of the Casa Sperimentale remains brief and unknown. The major theories state that the structure simply fell into the gloom once its owners died.
Villa de Vecchi
One of the most spooky and eerie on the list is Villa de Vecchi, situated near Lake Como, Italy. It is also infamously known as “House of Witches” and is known to be built around 1854-1857 as a summer house for Count Felix De Vecchi. Unfortunately, the house has been a hotspot of tragedy ever since it was built. Therefore, the family only ever lived in the house for a couple of years.
To begin with, the architect of the house died only a year after the construction. Followed by the 1862 tragedy with the family where Count De Vecchi came home one day to discover that his wife was murdered and his daughter was missing. He, too, died by suicide after a year after his search for his daughter failed. Count’s brother and his family then moved to the house and continued living there until World War II. After which, the house has remained abandoned till this date, not to mention how an avalanche destroyed every other house in the area but failed to wipe Villa de Vecchi out.
