"I was looking around, taking pictures - there's a grand piano in there, and things like that really interest me," he said. The 43-year-old says he had gone inside the crumbling building to take pictures and realised almost immediately that something wasn't right. The former home of wrestler Jackie Pallo. Paul Jones, a photographer from Canterbury, had been exploring the property on Haine Road in Manston yesterday when he made the heartbreaking discovery. No trace of the family has been left behind, with only the basic features of each room remaining.An urban explorer has told of the tragic moment he found a man dead in the derelict former home of the late wrestling star Jackie Pallo. įurther snaps show the once-well-kept greenery and trees have overtaken the land, which only adds to its unfortunate appearance.Ĭonstruction supplies are littered around some of the rooms, which have decayed after years of being left in disrepair. The home had been sold by the couple shortly before Allan’s remains were found. The once-magnificent mansion in Uniontown, Alabama, has been left to rot. Construction supplies are littered around some of the rooms, although the property has decayed after years of being left in disrepair.
One extraordinary image of their former family home shows the front of the house, where Allan’s body was discovered, dilapidated and boarded up.Īnother of the pictures shows the deserted front room with only rays of light illuminating the whitewashed patches throughout the lounge. His wife, Margaret, was implicated in the murder but was allowed to return home to care for her other children, before divorcing Philip and dying of cancer in 1998. “While the couple was in custody, authorities performed a thorough investigation of the property and questioned family members before charging Philip Lucy with murder.”Īllan’s adoptive father was later found guilty in 1997 and after a failed verdict appeal in 2001, hanged himself with his bedsheets in his jail cell. “Police believed they torched the house in order to claim on the $119,000 insurance policy which was purchased just a month prior. He explained: “Ironically, Allan’s adoptive parents were arrested just a week prior to the remains being discovered on an arson charge in connection to the fire that damaged the house.
Now urban explorer David Bulit, who runs Abandoned Alabama, has revisited the site to take a peek inside the decrepit home. The late Allan Lucy had resided in the home with his adoptive parents, Philip and Margaret Lucy, before they claimed he had run away to Florida to be with his friends. The grim discovery inevitably saw the once-magnificent mansion, built in 1918, take a tumble on the property market before it was left to rot. The mansion acquired its spooky second name after the body of a teen who went missing back in 1985 was tragically uncovered there. The truth behind the terrifying tale was only exposed when the couple sold their home and the new owner began renovating it.Ī construction worker harrowingly discovered Allan’s remains nine years later in 1994 after inspecting the foundations of the home. The late Allan Lucy had resided in the home with his adoptive parents, Philip and Margaret Lucy, before they claimed he had run away to Florida to be with his friends.īut he was actually buried in a Disney blanket under the grand porch of the property after Phillip brutally killed him. It acquired its spooky second name after the body of a teen who went missing back in 1985 was tragically uncovered there. The impressive property in Uniontown, Alabama, looks like an ideal family home from the exterior - but it is actually the site of a gruesome murder that went unsolved for nearly a decade.Ī plucky urban explorer took an eerie trip to the Hardie-Coleman house, better known as the Allan Lucy Murder House, to inspect the derelict pad. Take a look inside this chilling overgrown and abandoned mansion that is haunted by a sinister secret. The way you hang your loo roll says a lot about your personality I gave my husband a cake to celebrate his vasectomy – people say I’m ‘mean’ and he will cheat on me
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