The creepiest properties ever written about on Property Observer
It's Halloween. Over the years at Property Observer, some fairly horrific homes, and commercial sites, have been written about.
We've compiled the top five, and asked you which creeped you out the most.
Convicted murderers John Justin Bunting and Robert Joe Wagner used this former South Australian bank's vault to store their dismembered victims’ bodies in barrels in 1999. Eleven people were killed between 1992 and 1999, with eight bodies stored in barrels over this time.
It was then used for the film Snowtown. It was listed with a $200,000 price guide and ended up selling for around $185,000.
2) NORTH EPPING HOME
This North Epping home where five members of the Lin family were murdered was listed for March 22 auction in 2012. It was sold to the Lin family in October 2001 for $575,000.
The property reportedly sold for $766,000 to a family aware of the history of the property.
Esslemont, a 1916 Californian bungalow in Cremorne, has been sold by Kimberley McGurk. McGurk's property developer husband, Michael McGurk, was shot and murdered outside the Cranbrook Avenue property in September 2009.
It was later taken off the market in 2011.
4) NEPEAN PARK QUARANTINE STATION
As part of its plan to develop Point Nepean National Park, the Victorian government was seeking expressions of interest from leasehold operators of it heritage listed quarantine station.
The site was developed following the tragic arrival of Ticonderga, a ship that sailed from Birkenhead England but was overrun with yellow fever during its 80-day journey.
According to reports at the time, 100 people of the 795 passengers onboard died and there was not enough room to house all the survivors within the station and many died in tents surrounding it. Others, lured by gold escaped the confines. The property was used as a quarantine camp in 1954 when 113 army members onboard the Strathaird, were quarantined with smallpox.
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Images courtesy of the State Library of Victoria and the Point Nepean Community Trust.
An 1842-built bluestone pub in Darlington in south-west Victoria, halfway between Ballarat and Warrnambool has sold for $274,000.
The Elephant Bridge Hotel, named after the nearby basalt Mount Elephant, comes with seven rooms and lounge, dining and bar areas... It’s also supposedly haunted by ghost of Adeline Eliza Satchwell, who died in 1943 at age 83.
"The ghost wasn’t there bidding or there in attendance," the agent said.
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Do you remember a property story that creeped you out more? Send yours to news@propertyobserver.com.au
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