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The scary ghost town of San Zhi, Taiwan

You may be surprised by the architectural line of this abandoned city in the north of Taiwan .It was a really unique project started in 1978, where it was intended to raise a district of futuristic lines to turn it into a residential holiday area, where most of the houses will remember flying saucers rather than ordinary buildings with roofs and chimneys.

But something went wrong.It was a succession of concatenated incidents where accidental deaths, criticism for that "strange" architectural project and warnings from neighbors that this was land of demons and not men, ended up culminating the disaster and the consequent abandonment.

If today one of those responsible is asked what actually happened with the city of San Zhi, I would not know what to say, because nobody understands it, because, sometimes, I miss it.with more will the situations more common.

Today in Mysterious we want to talk to you about the unique futuristic city of San Zhi and its mystery.

San Zhi, a futuristic city mired in a strange abandonment

The abandoned city of San Zhi stretches along almost 70,000 square kilometers .It is large, as large were the projects that were planned there.It must be a complex vacation for US officials and the upper class of Taipei and sought, first and foremost, originality and a clearly futuristic style.

The scary ghost town of San Zhi, Taiwan

But accidents during the construction of these houses began to put the Voice of alarm.There were adequate security measures.However, there were many people who lost their lives due to accidental accidents and without explanation, so many that the exact figures have never been given.For this reason, the works were extended more than the due, the denunciations, the investigations, the stoppages...All this caused that the financing stopped arriving, that the investors denounced and that, little by little, the conclusion that the San Zhi city was perhaps not a good idea.

The scary ghost town of San Zhi, Taiwan

The residents of the area, the old inhabitants who knew the history of these lands, warned from the beginning.That is a place inhabited by bad spirits , by ancestral demons who do not want to be clouded.It may surprise you, but it is said within the circles of parapsychology that when the works begin in a house is when the paranormal phenomena begin to manifest.Strange "forces", sleeping entities that, suddenly, are disturbed by their calm.

The scary ghost town of San Zhi, Taiwan

They called it « the abandoned holiday resort of UFO houses » and for many years it was a pilgrimage center for every lover of the strange and, obviously, of the most original architecture.The MTV network loved going here to make documentaries, advertisements...It was made some odd movie and even More research was carried out.It was said that here there was a cemetery of Dutch soldiers and that the magnetic fields used to present numerous alterations.

The scary ghost town of San Zhi, Taiwan

Anyway, we are sorry to tell you that, although we would love to see the city of San Zhi in person, it is already impossible.It was completely demolished in 2008 , projecting the construction of a leisure area with numerous hotels.Mento no one dares to start the works...

If you liked this story, also discover the abandoned amusement park.Terrorifico!

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