They Say This Abandoned Resort Is Haunted By A Burial Ground…And A Dragon

When we stumble upon something abandoned, our imaginations go insane.

Regardless of the crazy thoughts the site of a dilapidated building may spark, there are always two thoughts everyone has: Why was it abandoned and what does it look like inside?

The latter of these questions can be answered if you have the guts to enter the deserted dwelling but the second is always more cryptic — and often time way more interesting.

Although you can gather some clues from an investigation of the interior, when local lore is attached to an abandoned spot it’s like you’ve stumbled upon ghostly gold!

Take the Sanzhi or UFO houses for instance. They were built in New Taipei City, Taiwan by a Chinese company called the Hung Kuo Group, and though the buildings look like they were built by aliens, the incidents that happened here aren’t the works of something extraterrestrial. Yet, they were otherworldly.

The resort began construction in 1978. The strange pods were designed to be vacation rooms for U.S. soldiers serving in East Asia. The resort was meant to be a live-in water park with a gorgeous view of the beach. Yet, the project was abandoned only two years into construction when strange things began to happen…

Construction came to a halt in 1980, and nobody has set foot on its land (legally) since.

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Some believe that it was an economic problem, but others think something paranormal was at play.

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The reasons for its abandonment have sparked local legends.

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And there's more than one spooky theory.

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Some believe that the resort was built on top of a graveyard of dead Dutch soldiers.

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The workers said upset spirits whose slumber they disturbed often visited them.

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Mysterious accidents began happening on site, and many were fatal.

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Many of the workers committed suicide. However, there was no indication that they were sad before they took their own lives.

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But that’s not the only paranormal legend attached to this haunted resort.

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Some claim that a sculpture in the area was once home to a sacred dragon and should have never been disturbed.

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Soon after it was abandoned, the spooky resort became an underground tourist attraction for urban explorers and fans of dystopian and science fiction.

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Many believed it was still haunted.

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Despite an online petition, the abandoned resort was demolished in 2008.

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It was supposed to become a new water park, but it remains untouched.

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Who knows if the haunting of the land has anything to do with that…

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