The House of the Tubes. (Image credit here.)
Located in Guadalupe, a city in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the House of the Tubes is an abandoned building as infamous for its bizarre design as it is for its tragic past. Originally constructed in the early 1970s and never finished, the house is made up of grey cylindrical shapes and contains a series of ramps to connect the rooms. As if the house couldn’t get any weirder, it’s said to be haunted by the ghosts of a young boy and girl, the latter who is said to roam and moan through the place in a wheelchair.
Nobody knows the exact origins of the house but local legend says that it was built by a wealthy family for their paralyzed daughter. Although the building does contain staircases, it was fitted with ramps and tunnels so somebody with a wheelchair could easily move through it. On the day the girl was taken to see the house for the first time, two bricklayers working on one of the top towers accidentally fell off and dropped to their deaths.
One of the house’s hallways. (Image credit here.)
Following this incident, the other workers refused to finish the house, and the family had to hire a different set of men to get the rest of the building done. After going back to the house to check on its progress, the daughter got excited and was racing down one of the upper-story ramps when she lost control of her chair. Led into an unfinished room, the poor girl fell out one of the windows, meeting the same fate as the two bricklayers. Devastated, her family had no reason to finish it, and sold the property off. (Some variations of the story claim that the girl deliberately killed herself.)
A short while later, another wealthy family with a paralyzed boy considered buying the house and paid it a visit with their son. While he was off looking by himself, he fell out the same window where the girl had fallen. After this accident, the authorities expropriated the property and took it off the market.
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Due to its dangerous design, local police have carefully patrolled the area to keep curious visitors away from it. While it’s still possible to visit The House of the Tubes, you have to get permission first, and I don’t believe you’re allowed in it without being accompanied by the authorities.
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