Ghosts were also rumored in the huge Budapest housing estate built on the cemetery
The (partial) construction of industrial houses in the 1960s and 1970s provided a solution to the national housing shortage after the Second World War. The housing estate in Újpest, built in the spirit of this national panel program, has been in Budapest and Hungary with its 17,000 panel apartments ever since. largest housing estate. However, the construction of the Bratislava road panels has caused a lot of headaches for the contractors, and strange and paranormal phenomena have been reported in the area ever since. In our next gallery compilation, we followed this mysterious “Ghost Colony.”
The history of the Hungarian panel is sixty years old
During the 15-year national housing program, which started in 1961 and lasted until 1975, one million flats were planned to be built, of which about 550,000 were made with panel technology at home, with an average floor area of 58 square meters. it is home to people.
Housing estate above graveyard
The urban legends associated with the settlement may certainly be due to the unfortunate choice of location, as the housing estate is of the Larsen-Nielsen type. panel blocks of an earlier tomb they rise above.
Újpest earlier it existed as an independent industrial city, it was annexed to Budapest only on January 1, 1950. It was then that they saw the development of the old working-class districts and partly demolished and partly renovated the old, neglected dwellings, which were largely built before the 1920s. Developments at a rapid pace and overcoming the housing shortage, on the other hand, required every foot of land, so the fact that they were liquidated most of the time in the capital came to fruition. Several smaller cemeteries were destroyed at that time, about 75 of the 87 cemeteries, and the old tomb garden in Magdolnaváros was also sacrificed.The liquidation of the cemetery was completed in 1964, and between 1969 and 1972 the Bratislava road panels were erected in place of the graves.
Click on the gallery below to see the former photos of the “Ghost Colony”!
Although the former graveyard was reportedly no longer buried and a significant portion of the earth’s remains were transferred to the New Public Cemetery, many human skeletons were discovered during construction and many unpleasant coincidences were documented. There have been more accidents than usual among workers and machines have often failed. The security guard is said to be sudden all night fading shadows saw, and after moving in, several residents reported strange footsteps, knocks, and some even reported striking figures in their homes.
Several also complained that the electricity in them had gone out on their own or the TV had turned on without any precedent. The neighborhood has not been one of the most popular residential areas for a long time due to creepy stories, and rumors spread like wildfire have made it very difficult to sell homes – despite the stifling housing shortages of the era. Especially after one supposedly had to close an entire floor in one of the blocks due to unpleasant odors, crackling noises and flickering lights.
In the first half of the period indicated at the beginning of the article, the implementation of the 15-year housing construction concept progressed well at the national level, but the lag was important in the capital. In 1970, 42 percent of the country’s housing demanders were still registered in Budapest, a study on the subject.
In these circumstances, it was particularly interesting that one of the panelists was referred to in the vernacular as a “ghost colony.” There were, of course, those who did not have much faith in supernatural phenomena, but rather sought an explanation in the achievements of the socialist construction industry.
It is not uncommon for panels to be able to produce strange noises due to poorly connected electrical networks or gas and water pipes. Like the hissing winds or the noises filtering through the thin walls from a neighbor. as it is an analysis of this draws attention to the fact that defective prefabricated flats and the buildings of public institutions built on them in poorer quality were sometimes the result of a conscious decision. Housing had to be built as cheaply and as quickly as possible, and many council contractors were more likely to arrange for the defects to be repaired afterwards.
Either way, the panic over the Újpest panels has subsided to a great extent, and few people tell of the ghosts lurking in the housing estate, but many ghost-hunted tourists are still happy to visit the area around Bratislava.