18 Creepy Abandoned Houses From Around The World
You're too old to beg for candy at strangers' houses, but that doesn't mean you can't still celebrate Halloween like a civilized adult. To get you in the spooky spirit, below is a round up of some of the most ominous abandoned houses in the world.
Who needs a dream home when there are so many nightmarish ones already out there?
1. Chateau Notenboom, Eikelenberg
Belgium
Originally the home of a German couple who fled during WWII, the current state of this Victorian mansion is encroaching on Lemony Snicket territory.
2. Poland
Europe
This neglected baroque mansion looks straight out of Hostel. Though with some serious elbow grease, it could probably be spruced up into something rather remarkable. Still haunted, though.
3. Durham-Sud, Quebec
Canada
Question: Is this 100-year-old decrepit apartment building haunted? Answer: CREEEEAAAAAAAAK (yes).
4. East Cleveland, Ohio
USA
This is a house kids skip every year trick or treating. For good reason.
5. Dayton, Ohio
USA
The stop sign in front of this place is frankly just cruel.
6. St. Joseph, Missouri
USA
Full disclosure: this one's probably not actually abandoned, but c'mon, it might as well have been trucked off a Hollywood horror movie backlot onto the suburban streets of the Midwest.
7. South Bend, Indiana
USA
NOPE.
8. Saint Peter
Barbados
This used to be a rum distillery. These days, though [insert smooth spirit joke].
9. Moncks Corner, South Carolina
USA
Any dilapidated house that requires a boat to access is on this list, no brainer.
10. North Brother Island, New York
USA
Once the site of a hospital and quarantine wards, both North and South Brother Islands—situated in the East River between The Bronx and Rikers Island—are empty, save for a bunch of winged residents, as it now serves as a rare bird sanctuary.
11. Missouri
USA
Missouri Chainsaw Massacre, is that you? Also, the only state to make the list twice.
12. Black Forest
Germany
See #9
13. Clarenceville, Quebec
Canada
Of course there are bats flying over this place. Those are birds, you say? Oh, well doesn't matter really because this place is freaking terrifying under any circumstance.
14. Istanbul
Turkey
Stay away. Star far, far away.
15. Florida
USA
Surprisingly not a sneak peek behind the scenes from this season of American Horror Story, this place is a lofted dollhouse-esque spread in the swamps of Florida. Also scary? Florida.
16. Iceland
Europe
This is Bjork's house. Just kidding, it's a horrifying farmhouse still standing somewhere on the barren terrain of the island country.
17. Howick, Quebec
Canada
Pretty sure no (living) person has called this place home since the year it was built, 1908. Also, Quebec: what gives?
18. Holland Island, Maryland
USA
See #8, #11, and those huge freakin' birds.
Joe McGauley is a senior editor at Supercompressor. Please don't scare him, he's sensitive.