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

Not a soul in sight.

Weird bean-shaped houses, oddly resembling UFOs.

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

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The 'UFO' houses of the abandoned town:

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

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

Some of the houses shown in the video are bean-shaped, while some resemble a trailer van - a rounded rectangular box-like structure. Reports claim that the box-shaped houses are Venturos while the UFO-shaped ones are Futuros, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. But reports claim that the exact date when the buildings were built is not known.

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

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Speculations over abandonment:

According to INSH, people living in surrounding areas believe the town to be haunted due to several unexplained accidents during the construction of the houses. There are reportedly no plans to redevelop this abandoned town, which sits with its multiple UFO-shaped houses, probably waiting for a call from its 'mother planet'.

The Valley of Dolls:

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

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