Abandoned $1.6 billion Missouri resort community goes viral - abandoned during construction in 2008

[Demovictory9]

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It’s scarier than a haunted house — and way more expensive!

A spine-tingling ghost town of mansions in Missouri, which was supposed to become a $1.6 billion resort community, went viral on social media this week.

Spooky footage shows the large, crumbling abodes abandoned among overgrown plants at the Indian Ridge Resort in Branson — more than a decade after the housing market crisis, TikTok user @carriejernigan1 posted over the weekend.

“Have you ever seen a subdivision full of abandoned mansions?” she asks in the video, which had raked in more than 2.1 million “likes” on Thursday.

“This was supposed to be a 1.6 billion dollar resort community. It was going to have one of the country’s largest water parks, golf courses, hotels conference centers and shopping,” she said.

“But instead it turned into a ghost town when the 2008 housing crisis hit. Five people had ended up in federal prison. And 13 years later the houses just sit here.”

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. china is rife with ghost towns like that

their planned economy has its share of similar failures,

[Demovictory9]

2. there are lots of ghost towns. this one is both ugly and beautiful

and why mansions with so little private land? big house but right up on top of each other.

[OhZone]

8. That's very common in NJ.

I'm near the shore, an hour and a half south of NYC, and there are big houses and mansions, some with a lot of land, some with almost none, some just a house on the water, some next to tiny former summer only homes. And all the mix of suburban homes, shopping, and, oh, beaches, and lakes and rivers. And a few miles south of me on the **Western** side of the major north-south artery, the Garden State Parkway, you'll find the Pinelands reserves, tons of woodlands, some small farms, and also "Piney's," the ruralish anti-urban types, some with nice homes, but a lot with run down homes. Yeah, guns, hunting, and sometimes an ignorant conservative attitude. All these peeps not so far from where Jersey Shore was filmed on the Eastern side of the parkway! Ha.

We're very eclectic around here.

[Blue_true]

9. A lot of pricey suburbs near bustling cities are like that. In California, $1,000,000 houses have

postage stamp sized yards.

[Demovictory9]

12. yes, tiny yards where land is pricey... but outside Branson??

[Blue_true]

22. There are fools born everyday.

Get people like that into fancy “sales” offices, do a glossy presentation, then take them out to diner at some pricey restaurant and ply the with all the alcohol they can hold, and soon you have either “investors” or home buyers.

Neither of us would pull a stunt like that, but the development was started by some people that went to jail for bilking people.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. In a lot of places in California a $1M house is a 1-story 3BR/2BA ranch-style from the '70's (n/t)

[Blue_true]

24. That is the downside of areas that have big time innovation going on, creating a bustling economy.

The people on the low end of the resulting pay scale get crushed. But all we see are the owners, big stock position holders, or super-star athletes or media personalities dabbling in investing or restaurant companies.

Where I live a person can rent a large warehouse of 6,000-7,000 square feet for less than $1500 per month, in NYC or San Francisco, $1,500 per month would get you nothing, even $9,000-$15,000 would maybe get a 2,000 square foot place on some back alley street.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. In Cal. those McMansions are everywhere

When I was in the SF Bay area during the housing boom late 90's/early 2000, I watched people buying up little 1950's houses in neighborhoods, tearing them down and building those McMansions, right up to the sidewalk, as you say. They sold, too, as horrendously high prices.

[Bristlecone]

3. Who is the total idiot who built all those houses on Spec?

Talk about bad business. Too much Field of Dreams and not enough business sense.

[Demovictory9]

5. plan was started at height of housing bubble, I think some went to jail over this

[Bristlecone]

14. You're right. I re-clicked the Post link and scrolled down

Below the pics. I hadn't realized there was a little more story below. TY

[DURHAM D]

4. Someone could have salvaged thousands and thousands of

dollars worth of stuff out of those houses. Too bad.

[Delarage]

15. The waste is sinful

Kitchen cabinets are EXPENSIVE and they were already installed---a LOT could be salvaged. This makes me sad

[SMC22307]

32. Exactly. What obscene waste. (n/t)

[Blue_true]

6. Man. I hope that Stephen King come across those pictures.

The resulting novel would likely be hair-raising. College kids stop in old decaying mansionville, unbeknownst to them, the mansions are haunted by the ghosts of dead people that had lost their huge deposits. Kids don’t care, they just want to drink beer, roast hotdogs and make out. But then the pissed off ghosts rise and cause all types of living hell for the kids.

[wcmagumba]

7. I used to drive past that on my way to and from work everyday...always known in the area...

as some sort of speculative rip off scam investment...branched off from the many time share "resorts" in that area...a few of the crooks did go to jail but numerous investors lost big money...

[OhZone]

10. Why does it look like someone threw oatmeal on them? ha

I know it's supposed to be some kind of stylish brickwork, but it looks like some horrible disease. Oh well.

[Demovictory9]

11. the random brickwork is awful

[FakeNoose]

17. They stopped before the work was done

I think it was supposed to have a brick and plaster sort of effect but it never got finished.

[Demovictory9]

28. ahhh.. you are right... they would have plastered on some stuff on the flat walk part that would

have blended in with the brick

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Attack of the Slime Creatures from Outer Space.

It only looks like brickwork. They've attached themselves to the houses, where they patiently wait for the next unwary urban explorer.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. I've seen rescue animals with better mange than those things have.

[oasis]

20. Pterodactyl flyover?

[Liberal In Texas]

26. Looks like there was more brickwork that just fell off and left the random

patches still on. If that happened you wouldn't think that they were built very well.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Those are some shitty parcels too. Bet there's a lot of hydrologic action against those foundations.

[FakeNoose]

21. Here's a good example for those who would invest in fake planned communities

Don't do it. It's always better to invest in a real community, even when it's not 100% to your liking. This place is like a failed Disneyland for billionaires. A lot of money was wasted on nothing, before this went belly-up.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

23. It's pointed out during the video that the "mansions" are actually duplexes.

Some also appeared to be almost a cluster home of 3-4 residences in one. I'm sure it's difficult to discern the original layouts with all the vandalism and decay but the are several "front door" type entrances on the structures.
What a sad waste of resources, I don't find it scary, just terribly terribly sad.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. They were probably intended to be vacation homes

rather than permanent residences. Though it's a "country music mecca" with many entertainment venues, the city itself only has about 11K residents. The closest major airport is in Springfield, 45 miles away.

[Demovictory9]

29. yes, they are townhouses.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Speaks volumes about global capitalism's failures alongside our massive homeless problem.

Shameful waste of natural resources, capital and man-hours.......

Next, someone someday will have to pay for their removal.

[onethatcares]

31. lumber recovery would be an option

if nothing else. Have you priced 2 x 4s lately?