Google Murder Castle and all that comes up are articles about serial killer H.H. Holmes

literal house of horse.

How scary is that?

A Murder Castle.

Completed in Chicago in 1892, this giant structure 150 feet long, 50 feet wide, took up most

of the entire block in the corner of 63rd and Walla streets.

There's a massive drugstore, various little retail shops around the first floor, hotel

rooms, H.H. Holmes, private residence, office on the third floor.

Second floor appeared to be more hotel rooms and there were a few, but in reality the second

floor was a horrific prison where numbers of young women went missing, burned to death.

Hung is fixated, suffocated, starved.

Sometimes released to the cellar through various trap doors and shoots where these poor

souls could be subjected to more torture if they still lived before being dissolved in

a quick limepit, burned in a kiln, or dissected and reduced to a literal skeleton, the meat

and skin flayed from their bones.

Unimaginable horse were committed to a few feet from tourists enjoying the 1893 Chicago's

world's fair, shoppers at the drugstore, guests being entertained by Dr. Holmes, a real-life,

Hannibal Lecter.

It is if Lecter was even more evil, more cunning and more prolific in taking human life

than the character in the movies.

And no one heard any of their many, many screams of agony and desperation because Holmes

took great care to soundproof this private hell.

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