Abandoned home is still filled with 1,000 toy babies ‘collected by mother whose two children died’
The world’s SCARiest dollhouse? Abandoned house is still filled with 1,000 toy babies ‘collected by mother whose two children have died’
- An urban legend claims that an abandoned house outside Seville was home to the mother of two deceased children
- New photos tell the tragic story of the empty house with broken floorboards but hundreds of preserved dolls
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An abandoned Spanish house filled with 1,000 toy babies in a village on the outskirts of Seville tells the tragic story of a mother who lost her two children and started her collection as a survival mechanism before dying.
Villagers are said to still shun the house, which has apparently stood empty since the woman’s death in 2017.
From the outside, the weathered facade contrasts sharply with the carefully curated and preserved interior, which – according to legend – has remained untouched for years.
“Nobody was allowed into the house,” photographer Ben James, 32, said after a visit. “She was a recluse… villagers were terrified to go near the house… they were convinced the woman was insane and the house was cursed.”
During the visit, “there were a few points where some of the dolls, maybe because of the wind, started to jingle like when you move dolls and they play that music.”
Superstitious villagers would believe that the children had possessed the dolls and that anyone who tried to steal anything from the house would become possessed and die as well.
The house has reportedly been empty for five years since the mother’s death, but villagers still fear the house near Seville
The building outside Seville appears to be preserved, untouched and abandoned since the mother died in 2017
Villagers still believe that stealing from the house would lead to possession and death, explains photographer Ben James
The photographer said there were still more than 1,000 dolls in the house, a relic of the house’s tragic history.
Despite the collapse of the floorboards, the dolls seem to have been perfectly preserved throughout the house after five years
The real dollhouse is part of an urban legend, because according to locals, a mother started collecting dolls after her two children died
Image shows damage to the floor of the house while carefully positioning and preserving the personal elements of the house
Spanish culture has some strong superstitions that fuel folklore and urban legends across the country
The facade of the house, untouched but showing signs of weathering after years of neglect in the village outside Seville