bottles, boats, bodies to name just a few,
photographs Jorge Carbajal, but a house? it is unclear how the abandoned home ended up on the
popular beach, but it seems to have been there a while, as it is covered up
with what appears like recent graffiti. One of the most popular theories is
that the villa was the victim of a powerful hurricane that his El Salvador over
two decades ago, the abandoned villa of La Puntilla Beach was popularized by
Salvadoran TikTok user Cholopanza Vlogs, who filmed himself exploring the
abandoned structure and also posted a more in-depth vlog about it on YouTube.
The footage went viral and tourists have been flocking to the ruined villa ever
since,
the history of this derelict structure is shrouded in
mystery, but El Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Grafica, recently shed some light on its past,
relying on accounts from locals living near La Puntilla Beach, apparently, around 28 years ago, the so-called villa was
actually a hotel called Hotel Puerto Ventura. To make it more appealing to
tourists, the owners decided to build it several meters into the sandy beach,
but that proved a disastrous idea as it made it more vulnerable to the
elements, “They built too deep into the beach, that’s what happened,”
one local fisherman weighed in on the tragic fate of the hotel. “Before,
official permission was not requested to build, and that is what happened, they
went too far.” so I guess the building did not wash up,
but was there all of the time until it was 'discovered' naturally the building has developed its own mystic, local woman Coralia Sotelo told La Prensa Grafica that kids
in the area have told her that at night they see a very tall black man hanging
around the derelict building, which is why she always keeps her distance, what a great story, building washes up on the beach and better still is haunted!
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