The burned house on Sycamore Church Road

Missouri · USA · Church

The remains of a house on a Branson, Missouri road. It was not the fire in the story that took it: teenagers partying inside burned it down in the late.

There are the remains of a burned house on the paved section of Sycamore Church Road near Branson, Missouri. Drivers report cold chills passing it, and the rumour attached is that a family died in the fire.

An update from June 2008 corrects that, and the correction is the entry.

The house was burned in the late 1990s by teenagers who had been partying inside it. Nobody died in that fire.

Before it burned, the house already had a reputation. The rumour then was that a family had lived there with a daughter they believed to be insane, and that they kept her locked in her room. A witness who saw the house before the fire has given an account of it.

So the ruin everyone points at is the result of trespassers, not tragedy, and the story that explains it belongs to a period when the house was still standing.

That is the ordinary life cycle of an abandoned house in America: a rumour, then visitors, then a fire, then a better rumour to explain the ruin.

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