UFO Houses: Abandoned town in Taiwan filled with empty alien spaceship-shaped houses, stirs 'haunted' rumours

t a soul in sight.

Weird bean-shaped houses, oddly resembling UFOs.

This is sight that greets if ones dare to enter abandoned town in Wanli, Taiwan.

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'UFO' houses of abandoned town:

According to a video released by INSH- a website dedicated to obscure stories from history, town which has been left abandoned since 1970, is filled with elliptical-shaped tree houses which resemble sci-fi imagined aliens' vehicle - flying saucers i.e UFOs.

video shows abandoned town filled with empty houses. While y claim that reason for abandonment, reports claim that property development in nearby areas may be one of possible reasons.

Some of houses shown in video are bean-shaped, while some resemble a trailer van - a rounded rectangular box-like structure. Reports claim that box-shaped houses are Venturos while UFO-shaped ones are Futuros, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. But reports claim that exact date when buildings were built is t kwn.

Here are pictures of town shared by some travellers on Twitter:

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Speculations over abandonment:

According to INSH, people living in surrounding areas believe town to be haunted due to several unexplained accidents during construction of houses. re are reportedly plans to redevelop this abandoned town, which sits with its multiple UFO-shaped houses, probably waiting for a call from its 'mor planet'.

 Valley of Dolls:

Similarly, a small vill called Nagoro in Japan too faces abandonment issues. It is famously kwn as  Valley of Dolls. Situated 550 km southwest of Tokyo, though t many humans inhabit, Nagoro's streets appear busy. reason - life-size dolls crowd se deserted streets outnumbering living by ten to one. se dolls are a one-woman effort to battle empty and lonely shell of society in Nagoro, which is struggling with depopulation like many or Japenese vills.

place gained its reputation as Valley of Dolls after 69-year old dollmaker, Tsukimi Aya, began placing scarecrows on street,16 years ago, to 'inject some life' into deserted vill.