Relau Villa (Relau House)

Wow

Old British house or their basement operation

Good place for paranormal seeker

I didn't know this place. But the 360.camera is so nice..

This is Penang famous haunted mansion/ghost house

The Relau House is the site of the longest-surviving Penang ghost story that has been faithfully handed down generation after generation to wide-eyed, impressionable kids. It is said a maiden drowned herself in the pool after her family did not approve of a man she loved. In another version, a couple and their son drowned there. However, there was never any official record of tragedy in Relau House. The truth is, the villa was built by Chung Thye Phin (鄭大平), a tin mining and planting tycoon. At that time, one of the lavish ways for the rich in colonial Penang to spend their money was to build holiday bungalows in their estates or on a hill. So, in the 1920s, Thye Phin commissioned the firm of Stark and McNeil to build a holiday home in his Sungei Relau Estate in Relau. It was told that Thye Pin lived the life of a bon vivant with lavish mansions in Penang, Taiping and Ipoh. He built the first swimming pool on the island in Relau and by its side, a summer house where he entertained his friends and associates. ??? ?? ????? ???? ????? Chung Thye Phin was a wealthy tin miner Chung Thye Phin, the last Chinese Kapitan of Perak. Chung Thye Pin Road in Ipoh, Perak, is named after him. Thye Pin was the fourth son of Kapitan Chung Keng Kwee, Penang’s famous Chinese leader whose memory is now kept alive by every cendol-loving tourist who drops by Lebuh Keng Kwee (named after him). Born in Taiping in 1879, Thye Pin went to St Xavier’s Institution in Penang. ??? ????? ????? While lack of care and maintenance has left the manor in a dilapidated state, the structural remnants reveal the signs of the original beauty and grandeur of the house, which once stood imposingly on a small hill. The most striking feature is the swimming pool, around which the house was built. The pool is surrounded by a series of columns resembling a Roman-style bathhouse, and its opulence and exoticism were perhaps unrivalled in Penang – and maybe even Malaya – at that time. The mansion has been cordoned off by the Penang Island City Council and the grounds surrounding it have been beautified.