If you are interested in abandoned buildings and ghosts, then we offer you a kind of guide: in these abandoned buildings located in different parts of the world, according to local legends, you can not only touch history, but also meet ghosts. Almost all of these places can be visited on your own, since access to them is free, but we still strongly recommend visiting there only virtually. So, let's begin:

Berengaria Hotel

Where: Prodromos, Cyprus
The heyday of the hotel, built in 1930 by a wealthy man, came in the 1950s and 70s, bringing considerable profit. However, the death of the owner of the hotel predicted a sad fate for his brainchild. He bequeathed the management of the hotel to his three sons, who at first managed to run the family business. However, later, when quarrels began on the basis of the distribution of profits, all three brothers died one after another under very strange circumstances. They say that this is the owner and the hotel took revenge on them for failing to keep their promise. Everything that could be taken out of the hotel was taken out by local residents, and the hotel fell into complete disrepair. It is said that the ghosts of the brothers settled in the ruins of the building.

Bhangarh Fort (Fort Bangar)


Where: on the way to Alwar and Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
On the way to the castle, signs are striking, which strictly forbid approaching it after sunset, since whoever dares to do this will never come back! The legend says that a black magician sent a curse on Bangar and its inhabitants because the shadow from the fort fell on a sacred place that was intended for meditation. He cursed everyone, saying that they would die a painful death, and their spirits would remain in the castle for centuries. That's how it all happened. This castle really inspires animal fear in every mortal. The government of India somehow decided to debunk the terrible myth and set up armed patrols in the fort, but there are still daredevils.

Diplomat Hotel


Where: Baguio, Philippines
Residents of houses in the vicinity complain of chilling sounds - moans, screams, slamming doors, hurried steps - coming, they say, from the side of an abandoned hotel. During the Second World War, this building served as a refuge for refugees, repeatedly subjected to shelling and bombing. The soldiers of the Japanese army executed many innocent sisters of mercy here. When a hotel was opened in the building in the 70s of the last century, its inhabitants repeatedly imagined the silhouettes of mysterious black figures walking around the halls, appearing in the windows hiding behind the curtains.

St. John's Hospital (St. John's Hospital)


Where: Lincolnshire, England
This hospital, founded in 1852, was created for the sick poor who suffered from mental disorders. For obvious reasons, few people cared about the fate of poor patients, so cruel methods of treatment were used on the unfortunate patients. When in 1989, after the closure of the hospital, employees were asked to remove all available medical equipment from the building, they did not manage to spend even a couple of days there. According to the men, they were constantly haunted by terrifying screams of unknown origin. Firefighters were called to the abandoned hospital more than once, as it seemed to people passing by by chance that flames were escaping from the windows. The fire brigades that came each time did not find any signs of a fire, but they saw some strange lights flickering in the corridors.

Salesian School (salesian school)


Where: Goshen, New York, USA
This Catholic school for boys was built on the territory of a former aristocratic estate. She enjoyed honor and respect until one day, in 1964, one of her pupils died: 9-year-old Paul Ramos fell to his death, falling from the roof of one of the educational buildings. Then the death of the boy was explained by a tragic accident, but at the beginning of the 2000s, this case again interested the press and special services. As it turned out, the body of the pupil lay too far from the school building: in order for it to fall at such a distance, someone had to push it, but finding the killer is, of course, unrealistic. Currently, the school building is under guard, but those few daredevils who managed to get past it and approach the abandoned building, in the window openings, according to them, saw the silhouette of a boy.

Baldoon Castle


Where: Bladnock, Scotland
During the day, the ruins of the castle do not evoke anything sinister at all, but at night here, they say, you can see the ghost of the bride Janet Dalrymple, dressed in a bloody wedding dress. According to legend, in the middle of the 17th century, her parents forced her to marry the rich owner of this castle, although she herself loved a poor guy named Archibald. However, the girl did not have to marry the unloved girl. A few minutes before the bride's entrance to the wedding ceremony, she was found stabbed to death in a room where the brides were waiting for their entrance to the altar. Some say that this is the work of a rejected lover, while others believe that Janet committed suicide.

Great Isaac Cay Lighthouse


Where: Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas
The designation of this island is not in every map, but its coordinates are well known to ghost hunters. Legend has it that in the 19th century, a shipwreck occurred not far from the islet, in which only a small child managed to survive. No one knows how his fate turned out, but still at night around the abandoned lighthouse the spirit of the child's mother, a lady in gray, roams, crying bitterly from grief. Two caretakers who lived here disappeared in 1969 under unclear circumstances. Their bodies have not been found so far. Many associate this mystery with the fact that the island is territorially located in the Bermuda Triangle, although according to skeptics, people simply died during Hurricane Anna, which carried their bodies into the ocean.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Waverly Hills Sanatorium)


Where: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
The building of the former sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis has repeatedly been recognized as one of the most terrible places in the United States. Students of pan-anomalous activity find it to be very high here. To a large extent, this refers to the "tunnel of death", which was originally cut for the employees of the sanatorium: in this way, they got to their jobs faster and safer, bypassing the rather steep slopes of the hill. And later, this tunnel began to be used to secretly take out the bodies of deceased patients: the living did not need to see how their neighbors in the ward set off on their last journey. Ghosts were seen not only in a narrow and terrifyingly dark corridor, but also inside separate rooms. So, for example, in the 502nd room lives the spirit of a nurse who hanged herself here after she, being pregnant, became aware that she had contracted tuberculosis. Those who wish to visit the abandoned sanatorium can do this as part of an excursion group.

This story happened to one little girl, who at that time was twelve years old. She had a best friend, the girls had been friends for a long time and very rarely parted. A friend of the heroine of this story gathered one day to go explore one abandoned house, but she didn’t want to go there herself, so she asked her friend to keep her company. I really wanted to look at this house from the inside, find out what is there and how. The fact is that there was an old legend about this abandoned house, which everyone knew, but not everyone wanted to check how much truth was hidden in it. The legend said that about twenty years ago a married couple lived in this house. A man and a woman loved each other and really wanted to have a baby, but they couldn’t do it. The woman, for various reasons, including the fact that she could not get pregnant, began to go crazy. She constantly asked everyone if people had seen her little girl, and when her mind was completely damaged, she killed her sleeping husband with an ax at night in the bedroom, after which she cut her veins in the kitchen. After that, no one dared not only to sell or buy this house, but also to come close to it. The girlfriends decided just to find out what is true in the old legend and what is not, being sure that the house will turn out to be ordinary and not at all scary. For some time (not very long) the girls got to the house, after which they decided to go into it. They walked around a long abandoned building. It wasn't scary at all. A typical abandoned building. They walked around the house, went around almost all the rooms, and then they heard something similar to barely audible steps ... The girl, who heard, as it seemed to her, the steps quickly rushed to her friend and asked her to listen. Yes, indeed, some kind of rustle could be clearly heard in the silence, but as soon as the girls began to listen, the sounds, as if on command, instantly disappeared. After discussing among themselves what they heard and deciding that it was either a homeless hungry cat, or mice in the house, or just something fell from somewhere, the girls calmed down a bit. The girls went up to the second floor by the old, creaky and almost rotten stairs of an abandoned building and stopped in front of a door with a sign with a written name on it. Perhaps the almost worn inscription indicated the name of a person who once lived in the room or the purpose of this room. Now it was impossible to read the inscription. One of her friends opened the unlocked door and both girls froze, discovering that this room was very different from the rest of the house. This room was cleaned, the items in the room were neatly arranged. There was a large bed, a huge closet against the wall, a table with a chair (not at all dusty, which is surprising), beautiful red curtains hung on the window. Having made up her mind, the heroine of the story took the first step across the threshold of the room, but then her friend grabbed her by the shoulder and said that they didn’t need to go in there, but it was better to get out of this house altogether, because the farther, the more uncomfortable she became. Deciding to show her friend how brave she was, the girl still did not obey and went into the room. At this time, her friend, not daring to enter, stood at the entrance to the room and shone a flashlight. Suddenly, sounds were heard more clearly that resembled shuffling steps ... The girl standing at the door, barely hearing these frightening and incomprehensible sounds, immediately, throwing a flashlight, ran away somewhere. The girl who remained in the room was numb with horror when she saw a shadow detaching from one of the walls. It suddenly became very cold. Against the background of all this, the echoing steps of an escaping friend were heard, which suddenly suddenly subsided. Silently opening and closing her mouth, the girl began to retreat towards the door, away from the frightening shadow that carried with it an almost frosty cold. Without looking where she was stepping and, experiencing a severe shock, a twelve-year-old girl stumbled over a chair, fell and hit her head hard. The shadow, acquiring the outlines of a human body, slowly approached. The girl, almost losing consciousness from the horror she experienced, looked into the face of a young man with a terrible laceration on his head, who, holding something like a meat cleaver in his hands, leaned towards the girl, barely alive from fear ... Probably, the pain from the blow led a little the girl came to her senses and she, rising from the floor with lightning speed, rushed down the stairs to the first floor. There was the sound of a door slamming shut over her head, but she didn't even think about turning her head. Having almost reached the first floor, the heroine of the story fell through with one foot - one of the steps of the stairs could not stand it. Someone's crying was heard and the floor creaked somewhere above. The girl raised her head and saw that same ghost with a split head. He even seemed to be smiling, slowly flying through the air to the failed frightened girl. Ignoring the pain, the girl pulled her bloodied leg out of the gap and covered the remaining distance to the first floor. Rushing to the door that led out of the house, she realized with a clouded mind that her friend must still be in the house - this was evidenced by the crying that was heard from one of the rooms, which the researchers at first mistook for the kitchen. The pain in the leg became even stronger, the crying coming from the kitchen did not stop, suddenly the voice of a friend was heard, who called the girl and begged to come to her. Deciding to first open the front door so that, taking her friend and not lingering a second longer, leave this terrible place as quickly as possible, the girl touched the door handle and instantly pulled her hand away - the handle turned out to be covered with frost. Another attempt to open the front door was unsuccessful. Despite the fact that it was the middle of summer outside, the pen was literally frozen. Having abandoned attempts to open the door and leaving behind a trail of blood (the leg was already literally on fire, it hurt so much), the heroine of the story went, limping, into the kitchen. What the girl saw before on the second floor and in the kitchen on the first floor can never be erased from her memory and, probably, will always haunt her in nightmares. In the middle of the kitchen, her friend was kneeling and crying while waving her arms. To her left stood a ghost with a cleaver. Having barely managed to restrain himself from rushing out of this room at the sight of how her friend does not notice her, putting her hands in an unnatural position with each wave, as the ghost of a man smiles and a very real-looking cleaver in his hands casually sways around her friend’s neck, The girl remained where she was. Basically, there was nowhere to run. The frightened girl asked to let her friend go, to which the creature to the left of her friend only smiled wider. At the same moment, the girl waving her arms froze motionless and a dense dark fog began to form around her. It got even colder. From chilling horror, not so much for herself, as for a friend and because of a terribly sore leg, the girl collapsed to the floor. When the fog cleared, on the right, next to the motionless friend, who stared with an unseeing gaze straight ahead, another creature appeared, which seemed to come out of the body of the unfortunate kneeling girl. It looked like a woman, a very beautiful woman. Only now the expression of her eyes was somehow otherworldly and inanimate. Having experienced so much horror in a few hours, the girl who came for her friend practically did not react to the appearance of the ghost of a woman. The only thing that was enough for her was to ask in a dull voice what the ghosts needed from them, to which the creature standing to the right of her friend answered without moving her lips (it seemed that a low and soulless voice was heard right in her head), which thanks her , because she brought to their house a girl who they need and whom they have been waiting for a long time. The girl in question did not react in any way to what was happening, continuing to kneel with both ghosts on the sides. After the words of the creature sounded in the head of the heroine of the story, her head seemed to explode. She came to her senses after a while, a few hundred meters from the terrible abandoned house - she was stirred up by her grandmother, who noticed the dirty and bloodied girl. The girl was rushed to the hospital, where her severely torn leg was sewn up. After this incident, she had to visit psychiatrists and various psychoanalysts for a long time and regularly, but she never became the same as before. Her friend was found three days later in the forest, which was several kilometers from the ill-fated house ...

If you have great stamina, most of these places can be easily visited.

1. Parisian catacombs - Paris, France.

At the very beginning of the history of Paris, when Christianity flourished, the practice of burying the dead became applicable not on the outskirts, but within the city. As the city grew, its cemeteries became overcrowded and unsanitary.

The areas surrounding the most popular cemeteries were so heavily polluted with decaying remains that a new large-scale burial ground was needed. In the late 1700s, six million Parisian "dead" were exhumed and transferred to the underground tunnels of the Parisian catacombs. It is said that hostile spirits whose bodies have been disturbed now haunt the tunnels.

Visitors say that not only human remains crawl out in the tunnels, neatly buried row by row, but also supernatural phenomena: cold spots, the feeling that you are being watched, shadowy figures, and there have even been several cases of suffocation by ghosts.

2. Island of the Dolls - Xochimilco, Mexico

Imagine yourself floating lazily down a maze of rather small canals in Xochimilco, south of Mexico City. You see other trachinera gondolas - colorful boats carrying visitors, live traditional music playing next to you while you enjoy breakfast, looking at the wildlife and tastefully manicured gardens on the islands passing by.

Then you look up and realize that instead of being in the wild, you are actually surrounded by dolls. Your boat has sailed away, the music has died down and there are only dolls around - mutilated, dirty, nasty dolls. Thanks to Don Julian Santana Barrera. The story goes that Barrera found the body of a little girl near his island in the canals. He believed that he was haunted by her ghost, and decided that these creepy dolls would help protect him from the spirit of the girl.

As might be expected, he spent the next quarter of a century hiding in his house until he died... or rather drowned in the very spot on the river where the girl's body is said to have been found. Visitors to the island are convinced that the puppets have taken on the girl's spirit or are self-producing evil spirits, and are often seen whispering to each other.

3. Roscray Castle, Offaly, Ireland

If there is a room in the old castle called "Bloody Chapel" - that's enough for me to keep my foot out of this building. The chapel got its name and ghost story sometime in the mid-1500s when the chapel priest was stabbed to death in the middle of a service by his crazy brother, who left him to bleed to death on the altar.

The underground dungeon - a long, spiked shaft at the back of the chapel where the castle's enemies were dumped to be killed - is another likely source for the 20 or so spirits that are rumored to appear in the building today. The most feared of these is the Elemental, a hunched-over creature with a decaying face that smells of rotting body and brimstone.

4. Larundel Psychiatric Hospital - Bandura, Australia

In 1953, Larundel Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors to hundreds of patients with varying degrees of mental illness and psychosis, as well as one famous patient who, after his stay at the facility, became one of Australia's most infamous serial killers. Today, the building is covered in graffiti such as pictures of monsters, straitjackets and bizarre eyes.

Parts of the building were badly damaged by fire, which is believed to have caused the restless spirits. People, exploring the area, often talk about loud noises, strong, unpleasant odors, and sometimes you can hear children crying or - which is somehow even creepy - laughter.

The most common sound heard is that of the young girl's music box on the third floor. The girl is said to have died there, and occasionally appears to visitors in a nightgown with a box in her hands.

5. Tower of London - London, England

Since the 1070s, the Tower of London has been used as a royal residence, menagerie, mint and treasury, arsenal, but is most often remembered as a torture chamber and a prison used by English monarchs to quench their thirst for violent punishment. The spirit of Anne Boleyn, who was executed here in 1536, haunts several parts of the tower, especially in the place where she was executed.

Her ghost was seen wandering around the Chapel Royal without a head. Another victim of Henry VIII, the Countess of Salisbury, before she was beheaded, managed to escape, but the executioners caught up with her throwing an ax that killed her - a terrible scene that is repeatedly played out by spirits and which can be seen by visiting the Green Tower.

6. Linda Vista Hospital - Los Angeles, California, USA

The Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles previously flourished. But as the eastern part of the Los Angeles neighborhood changes, so do customers and employees. In the 1970s and 80s, the quality of care was affected by doctors' decision to move to hospitals in wealthier areas, resulting in an unusually high death rate in Linda Vista.

By 1991, the hospital ceased to exist and quickly emptied. In the years that followed, the building quickly fell into disrepair, and rumors spread of screams in the night, inexplicable voices, ghosts, and disembodied, insanely creepy humming. City explorers swear that the little girl is still hanging in one of the old operating theaters, and sometimes tries to grab the hand of a living person to calm her down.

The hospital is going to be converted into an apartment for the elderly, if there are any grandparents that you especially dislike.

7. Aokigahara Suicide Forest - at the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan

The dense forest of Aokigahara has been a popular place for suicides since before Wataru Tsurumi's 1993 bestseller The Complete Guide to Suicide, which called it the perfect place to die. Suicide was so common here that in the 1970s, annual sweeps were instituted by the government to remove bodies - most of which were found in various stages of decay, hanging from trees in nooses.

Approximately 70-100 bodies are found here every year, so it is terrifyingly likely that the sounds of weeping heard through the trees may be from real living people committing suicide, but many believe that the forest is cursed with the torture of the souls of the dead here. In any case, I would not like to find out the details.

8. Edinburgh Castle - Edinburgh, Scotland

The castle dungeons, especially those with 900 years of history, have seen various hard times. The dungeons of Edinburgh Castle are haunted by the spirits of such strange personalities as Lady Janet Douglas, who was accused of being a witch and later burned at the stake (along with 300 other women who were burned in the history of the castle), Prince Alexander Stuart Albany, who escaped , killing the guards and burning their bodies.

When visiting, we expect to see their ghosts and the spirits of a headless drummer, a phantom piper, a stray dog ​​from a dog cemetery, and many other deceased prisoners roaming the halls. Visitors also report an eerie feeling of being watched, unnatural fluctuations in temperature, breath sounds coming from nowhere, and, worst of all, invisibility touching their faces.

9. Igorot Burial Caves - Echo Valley, Sagada, Philippines

For centuries, coffins containing the remains of famous citizens of the small mountain town of Sagada in the Philippines were hung along the cliffs of the Echo Valley. The tradition is related to the belief of the Igorot tribe that hanging the bodies of the dead brings them closer to heaven, and in addition saves their bodies from animal scavengers.

The tradition is rooted in the depths of centuries, some decaying coffins fall off the rocks, and the area around is a little terrifying because of this. Along with the coffins suspended from the rocks, many coffins fill the caves below.

According to local residents, not only coffins and remains are in the Echo Valley. Sometimes whispering voices are heard, and shadows appear here and there. There were also rumors that the ghosts of the caves were mischievous, but the people of Igorot usually say that if you just show some respect and don't disturb the coffins, you'll walk out of the valley unscathed.

10. Cecile Hotel - Los Angeles, California, USA

The Cecile Hotel in downtown Los Angeles has a reputation for being where you might not want to stay due to drug addicts, serial killers and really scammed tourists. It was first heard of in 1947, in connection with the still unsolved case of the murder of the Black Orchid girl, in subsequent years the hotel was associated with several more mysterious deaths.

After a number of suicides and several murders in the rooms, the hotel gained notoriety as the residence of serial killers Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker) in 1985 and Jack Anterweger (Vienna Strangler) in 1991. And then there was Eliza Lam, who disappeared from the hotel earlier this year. Shortly after her disappearance, a video was released showing Eliza in a hotel elevator (at her last known location) frantically pushing buttons, hiding, peeking furtively down the hallway, and waving her arms into the hallway.

A few weeks later, after hotel residents complained about the smelly and strange-tasting water, her body was found at the bottom of one of the rooftop water tanks, even though the area had been sealed with an emergency door. With no visible signs of injury and no banned substances in her body, her death was ruled an accident.

If you believe that she accidentally stripped naked and climbed without a ladder into one of the 2.5-meter-high water tanks, fell inside and closed the tank lid behind her, then yes - there is nothing wrong with Cecile's hotel at all.

11. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The most horrific holiday destination - an estimated 14,000 men, women and children were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh has seen many horrors over the past few decades. There is nothing unexpected about rumors of restless spirits in a place where thousands of horror stories have taken place.

Museum workers have been known to leave food during their lunch break for the spirits - they say they can't otherwise eat in peace due to poltergeist activity and loud crackling. Guards say they have seen shadowy figures wandering around at night and regularly hear screaming and banging inside buildings.

Other workers also say that the spirits of the dead come to them in their dreams at night. As horrific as it is to think of the thousands of tortured souls roaming the scene of their brutal murders, the reality of what actually happened in those cells sounds a hell of a lot scarier.

12. Lemp Mansion - St. Louis, Missouri, USA

The history of the Lemp family in St. Louis began in 1838, when Johann Adam Lemp built his small store to sell food, household items, and his own lager beer. The light beer was so popular that Lemp started a brewing business, which made his family and himself very rich.

Despite their success, the Lemp family survived 4 suicides (and the murder of an unfortunate dog). And it all happened in their mansion. After the last member of this family died, the mansion was turned into a boarding house, and the building began to collapse. After the sounds of walking, knocking and other strange sounds, people began to say that the building was inhabited by ghosts.

Today, you can rent rooms in the mansion and check out the existence of visions, other moving objects, and leave a toy in the attic for the ghost of William Jr.'s illegitimate son. He was everyone's favorite.

13. Chernobyl - Pripyat, Ukraine

300,000 people were evacuated from areas surrounding Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. Hundreds of residents and members of clean-up teams have died from radioactive poisoning, and people living in neighboring towns have been exposed to radiation for years.


Although the area has been vacant for nearly 30 years, the site and the abandoned villages surrounding it have been the scene of strange phenomena. Witnesses reported seeing ghostly figures moving through the streets and buildings, especially near the hospital in Pripyat. But the saddest reports actually came BEFORE the crash.

Reports of winged, gigantic shadowy figures - human-shaped but with glowing red eyes - began to surface in the vicinity of Chernobyl in the weeks before the accident. People also reported nightmares and threatening phone calls, all around watching what became known as the Black Bird of Chernobyl. The inexplicable continued until the morning of April 26. After the accident, the Black Bird of Chernobyl was never seen.

14. Shanghai Tunnels - Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland's underground network of tunnels was heavily exploited between the 1850s and 1940s for human trafficking and other seedy purposes. Many of those who made it to Shanghai - falling into tunnels through hatches hidden in bars and other questionable establishments, sold as labor on long sea voyages - did not survive.

The dark and dusty passages are now home to the souls of former tunnel workers and those who were trapped and imprisoned there, such as "Strawberry" - a little girl who lived in the basement with Nina, a long-dead prostitute.

15. Cannibal Village - Nabutautau, Fiji

In 1867, the Christian missionary Rev. Thomas Baker visited a small village in the Fiji mountains. Shortly after his arrival in Nabutautau, the reverend and his Fiji escorts were executed, cooked, and eaten. Over a hundred years later, cannibalism has stopped in Fiji, but the spirits of the missionaries have not yet calmed down.

Do you believe in ghosts? Not? And they believe in you :) And they invite you to visit one of the largest wooden houses in the world. Of course, this house has long been abandoned. And as usual, he has a complicated history. Welcome to the orphanage on the largest of the Princes' Islands (Adalar) - Buyukade, near Istanbul.

The history of Büyükada Rum Yetimhanesi (Greek Orphanage) began in 1899 when a French company decided to build the Prinkipo Palace hotel and casino on top of the hill.

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The building turned out to be luxurious: 6 floors, 20,000 square meters, 206 rooms, many utility rooms, more than 100 windows!

But the plans of the French did not come true - Sultan Abdul Hamid II did not issue a permit for operation. The building had to be sold. Its new owner was the wife of a Greek banker. After her death, he gave the house to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. So it became an orphanage for Greek orphans.

When the First World War began, the children were resettled, and the Turkish Kuleli military school used the house.

Then, for some time, Greek refugees lived in the house, who were sent to the Princes' Islands. Russian refugees also flocked there, seeking salvation from the Bolsheviks. The house accommodated everyone, like a giant Noah's ark.

Later, the house again became an orphanage and school for 1000 Greek orphans.

The shelter lasted until the 60s, when the building, completely built of wood, began to crumble. The house was demolished and closed.

Since then, it has been abandoned and no one has tried to restore it. Many ceilings have already collapsed, the roof is missing in some places, which only accelerates the destruction.

In 2010, the Patriarchate of Constantinople regained ownership of the house and plans to restore it.

But for 8 years, only a fence was erected around the building and guards were put up.

A family lives on the territory near the house, which ensures that no one enters here.

Dogs run around and various village animals graze. It was not possible to get inside.

From the outside you can see the deplorable state of the building.

Even its partial restoration requires huge sums of money.

On the territory there are several other auxiliary buildings made of wood.

The shelter is simply amazing in its scale. The building is somewhat reminiscent of the Titanic, and, in fact, comes from the same era of giant structures.

Inside, all the decoration is also made of wood. Photographs of the 60s, when the shelter was closed, have been preserved. Pay attention to the rich interior - originally there was supposed to be a casino here.

On a bright, sunny day, one does not think about sad things at all, but in inclement weather it should be dreary here.

I wonder if the Greek Church will someday pay tribute to the building, which for more than half a century has been the home of thousands of people deprived of family and shelter?

Although, it is probably easier to rebuild a building than to restore an old one.

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Some time ago, I talked about abandoned cities that people left for one reason or another. And today I want to continue the topic and show you abandoned places where no man has set foot for many years. As a rule, these are dwellings; for many years they kept the warmth of the hearth, until the people who inhabited them left - some in search of a better life, and some into oblivion.

For those buildings, which will be discussed below, it is clearly noticeable that not only people, but also houses can age. As soon as the house is deprived of signs of human presence - the smells of food, the sounds of voices, little things and decorations that give comfort, and as soon as there is no one to take care of it - the building decays, grows old and slowly dies. Just imagine how good these buildings would be if they were needed by someone who would put a piece of their soul into them.

When I was preparing a selection, it turned out that there are a lot of abandoned houses that I want to talk about, and in this article I decided to limit myself to castles. If it is interesting, we will return to this topic and get acquainted with other abandoned places - mansions, factories, factories, fortresses and much more. Here we go?

Miranda Castle in Belgium.

Miranda Castle in Belgium was built by an English-born architect in 1866 for the family of the Count of Lydkirk-Beefort, who lived there until the Second World War.

In the post-war years, the owners of the castle were forced to sell it to the Belgian railway company, after which the castle changed hands many times. Since 1991, it has been abandoned: the owners cannot maintain it, since owning the castle is an expensive pleasure, and they do not want to transfer it to the municipality.

Meissen castle

Meissen Castle (Belgium) was built almost five hundred years ago, and at various times served as a mansion, a tobacco factory and even a distillery. When the First World War came and the Belgian "top" of society invested in education, a women's educational boarding school functioned in Meissen Castle. The institution ceased to exist in the seventies, when French education was banned in most of the Flemish regions.

By the way, I thought that Meissen Castle still exists, scaring rare visitors with ghosts and slowly collapsing, but it turns out that it was demolished a couple of years ago. Very sorry. It was a magnificent building with a long, unusual history. Alas, I did not have time to visit there.

Bannerman's Castle

At the beginning of the last century, an immigrant from Scotland, the famous arms dealer Bannerman, bought an island in America for the needs of his business. An enterprising Scot built a castle on it, the remains of which we can still observe today.

Bannerman left in 1916, leaving no heirs, and the castle was left without an owner, but with huge stocks of ammunition, some of them exploded two years after the death of a businessman. Part of the structure collapsed, but the building survived. In the fifties, the only thread that connected the castle and the rest of the world - the ferry - ceased to exist, and if earlier at least rare tourists wandered into the island, now the castle was left alone with its old age.

In 1969, there was a strong fire - the roof burned out in the castle and part of the floors were damaged, but this did not break Bannerman's castle - he continued to swell his countless turrets menacingly into the sky.

In 2009, almost a third of the walls of the building collapsed, and today it looks like this:

Palace of Prince Halim (Egypt)

The project of this stunning building was designed by the famous architect Antonio Laskiak.

The palace was built at the beginning of the 20th century as a residence for the ruling family, but over time the building was transformed, and for more than half a century it housed Al-Nassriyah, one of the best men's schools in Egypt. In 2004, the building was completely abandoned, and today only the wind walks in it.

Villa on the island of Como

This building was built on the island of Como (Italy) and in the first period of its history - and it began in the middle of the 19th century - it was called Villa Vecci, after the name of its creator, Philippe de Vecci, who built a mansion for his family. Today, among the people, it is called the “haunted house”: it is believed that the spirit of the wife of the head of the family, who has not found shelter, lives in it, who committed suicide.

Here are the stories. It is sad that these houses, apparently, are doomed: their reconstruction requires a lot of money, and it is much more profitable not to restore the old building, but to build a new one. But most of the abandoned castles have problems with determining the owner, so even some foundations for the support of ancient monuments cannot take them under their wing. On the other hand, there is some sad beauty in these moss-covered bricks, empty windows and the silence of the rooms.