Interesting sidenote on the duPont connection.

John duPont (duPont heir and billionaire) shot and killed Olympic wrestler, David Schultz on Foxcatcher Farm in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1996.

duPont had pled insanity and was determined by the court to suffer from mental illness. The defense argued that he had paranoid schizophrenia. Prosecutors argued that his illness stopped short of legal insanity. Jurors rejected the insanity defense, finding him "guilty but mentally ill" in 1997. duPont was 58 when convicted of third degree murder. He was sentenced to 40 years in a mental hospital.

The house in the photos is directly off of Cossart rd in the state of Pennsylvania. The reason i think this is the house is because the fields to the SE which are visible in just a little bit more of a zoomout, are most definately the ones that "The Village" was filmed in and the Johnson murders took place. Buymeapony, if you turn on the roads option on google earth you can see that it is cossart rd. and if you turn on the borders option you can see where the Delaware-Pennsylvania border is.

Are the "Johnson murders" the ones which were chronicled in the film "At Close Range" with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken? The scenario certainly sounds the same and if I remember the movie correctly, they were in Pennsylvania.

kidd

I don't live too far from the house.

Thanks! I see what you mean now. Further up in the postings and in a link another posted the house is supposed to be located right at the border of those two states. I think weve got the right house.

I'm pretty sure I know what's going on out there the residents are trying to have a little privacy. Take it from guy who lives out in the country in Ohio people who live out in the country like there privacy.I have not seen any real proof that these people are hiding anything, and the fact that they don't like strangers hanging around you should try to put yourself in there situation your living out there on a small country road and it becomes an attraction for every drunk teenager/ frat guy, cultist and paranormal thrill seeker in the region. That wouldn't be what you want and I can definetly understand why they wouldn't be to friendly what do expect them to do say "hi have fun vandlizing our nieghbor with graffiti and destroying our property". And I can imagine they would take some drastic actions like trying to get the the road close and those weird patrols that follow I would do it.

Yes, they are the murders in that movie. I had a good website for all this stuff from a link in this thread but i can't seem to find it.

So we have murders in the area a while ago, and seclusion, mixed with trees that are shaped oddly due to power line construction. Mix it all together, and you've got a conspiratorial following of a cult house idea!

Seriously. Nothing too odd about this place. I've been there. It's creepy, yes, but aren't a lot of old country roads?

I find it even more scary that local hick kids like to chase people off the road and pop out to try to freak people out.

I gotta say, I've never read a whole 11 pages of stuff on a message board before. This is awesome.

Awesome stuff

I have never heard of the Du Ponts before though, I must admit. Inbreeding...how quaint.

I heard of the Du Ponts the Plastic manufacturing company I worked for had Du Ponts as one of there main clients and I did invetory clerk work on there accountant alone and I was aware there was Du Pont family and I hadn't heard any sort of urban legend about of course.

This has to be about one of the weirdest stories I have ever heard in my entire life. But some of you people are rather bald, remember it always the curios one that ends up dead in the movies.

sounds like some old guy who got a house from his relatives and wants to be left alone

Not me Ive got flowing locks

Thanks flipkyle.

The DuPonts are indeed big in plastics and many other things. They are, quite frankly, one of the richest families in the world. They earned much of their fortune supplying gunpowder for several wars. They own Remington Arms Co.

kidd

dude i def went there 2 day and there is a part of the "legend" taht a black truck follows you and just apepears out of nowhere then disappears agian into nothing and it happened 2day!
it was awesomei dunno if that measn anything 2 you but i only live 15 min away from there so if they'res anything in specific you want me 2 check out my friends and i will go there and check it for yah

Lets just say it like this.
You know when something happens sombody allways says "Somewhere there is somebody that is actually profiting off all of this."
Well that someone are the DuPonts.
What ever happens in the world one way or the other, the Duponts earn money off it.

Damn. Sucks that they inbreed, because I wouldn't mind marrying in, getting my hands on some of that cash. haha.

ahh.. 12 whole pages on the House of The Unholy..
hell interesting topic here..

after so many post from different peeps..
no one took a picture of that house..
or atleast parts of it..
thats sad..

anyhows those peeps who really wanna go there and stuff..
since its already known as a satanic area/devil's house/satan's church.. etc
why not go there with black long hooded capes..
and disguise as one of em..
some time when ya feel like there's nothing else better to do..
and just prank up some story that seem awfully real..
but hide ya cars elsewhere and just walk up the hill looking all serious and stuff..
and play their roles tryina chase off other random kids or something..
go up to the house and see things for yourself..

haha totally crazy idea i know!
i've no clue how i came up w/ such a ridicules idea..

Yeah, genius, because you're really contributing to finding out the truth. Congratulations. By the way, it's been done before. You're totally crazy idea is quite mundane.

How about you bunch of explorers just stay off of these people's private properties?

The whole "witch house" story is usually what? It's usually based on the home of some rich people who live a good bit away from the road, on their own property. So they come up with ghost stories and tell the security guards to chase people off if they get too close, to keep people off of their property. Too bad it backfires and you true believers of all things spooky feel like investigating.

I'd strongly warn you against doing this, as you will be trespassing, facing legal charges, or worse, you'll find yourself on the receiving end of some gunfire from the security crew (or the residents if the whole "security cabin" part of this ghost tale is made up).

"burning down the house"

I agree with area69. I've been there. The only cool thing is the skull tree, that's about it. You will get arrested, and it's a pretty juvenille thing to do, especially considering all the evidence points to this thing being a farce.

About 1 month ago a friend of mine purchased a book called Weird Pennsylvania. We read about a place called the cult house and relized it was not far from were we lived.
so for about the past month we have been visiting this place daily. Pretty much everynight insearch for a following car. Well lastnight i got what i was asking for and we were driving down the road to show a sceptical friend the trees thinkin that this whole thing might just be a hoax. We pass skeletons tree to show him the tree and two lexus's fly up the road with tinted windows we ignored it and thought of it as residents or other kids. About a half a mile down the road we see another Lexus approaching at a very slow speed when they passed i looked behind and it kind of looked like it stopped but i couldnt tell. NOW THIS IS WERE I GOT SCARED! We pursue are adventure and as we keep driving im in the backseat looking out the window. I see a car coming up at what seemed to be a rediculas speed. (Now i wouldnt of thought too much of this except they were controlling there car with fog lights. If anyone has been down this road they will know what i mean. It is completly dangerous to speed on because of the turns and bumps but with just fogs it is nearly impossible (trust me iv tried)). Ok so the car catches up to us with about a foot of room between my friends bumper and the lexus's front bumper. At this point we relize all three cars that we have seen were lexus's except diffrent styles. We turn left off of cossart rd. onto what i believe is creek rd heading to baltimore pike. For about 3 miles they followed us at a rediculas speed with there lights on for a good minute then his lights off. At one moment the lexus came up next to the rear left wheel into the opposing lane then stopped. At this moment we were no longer intrested and just wanted to get home. The whole time i am completely turned around in the backseat and looking out the window a little nervous. Why we are all talking about it and im looking out the back window two lights turn on right infront of my eyes and there is a car there i dont know how it appeared the way it did but i know im not lying when i say the car appeared infront of my eyes. Then the lexus pursued to follow back behind us with his lights on and off for another quarter mile. When we came close to baltimore pike the lexus stopped the car with his lights on and drove off. By then me and my friends were extreamlly scared and wanted to get home. We drove about 3 miles down baltimore pike got off at are exit and started heading home.
About ten to fifteen minutes after this happend and we are done talking about it we got into my home town safe and sound, so we thought! We look behind us and there is a SUV LEXUS again with no headlights on about a foot behind the car. The car followed us intill we approached an intersection were they had to put his lights on and follow two cars behind us. Well the car turned off and we all got back to my house. When we tried to think of a reason that these people would drive off an hour out of there way to shake off some unwanted visitors. And how did all the diffrent Lexus's appear in such opposite sides of chester county when they were clearly all diffrent vehicles. Well this morning when i woke up my buddy called me and told me he was talking to a local and heard that the pegans (local Philadelphia biker gang) owns (The Cult House). Now here is another weird thing. Over the summer 2 bikers walked into a Harley Davinson shop on route 1 (baltimore pike) to get there bikes checked out and see much power they pushed. The owner refused to do business with the men because of there manors. About one hour later 2 Tinted lexus's came to the harley davinson shop and beat the man senceless. When we saw the vehicles we saw blue lights on there windsheilds when the headlights were shut off. But they wernt there when lights were on. My friend that is into cars told me that is night vision and it is made in lexus's to spot any source of heat from far away. Does that mean When these cars are spotted by people driving up and down cossart rd there looking for unwanted pedistrians walking on there grounds. That im not sure of but what i do know that is if i ever go back down that road again it wont be in the same car i was in. P.S. i have not found the actuall house yet but have been doing alot of research on it and found a hidden road that is extreamly creepy and off of cossart rd. I think this has to be it. I used a aerial map and searched cossart rd. The program i was using had a option that u could pick to see road names and not just the road itself. The name of the road is brookfeild. Except when you type in brookfeild it will bring you back up to the top of chaddsford and not to the road. You go to kennet pike turn on to cossart rd. then at your second stop sign you turn left onto stockford and follow that it will turn back into fairville but keep going and keep your eyes open to the right because i can almost garuntee it wont have a road sign but you want to turn right onto the and its stockford again and the right were i believe the house is it turn misteriouslly into another road called brookfield then it will take you back to cossart rd. I havnt had a chance to do this yet so if anyone does please respond back to me. my email address is AKACHALK69@YAHOO.COM and i dont know what it is out there but i do know that whatever it is dosnt want outsiders to have any knowledge of its presents simply because many diffrent lexus's from spaced apart towns were following us turning there headlights off just to scare off kids i believe they have many people around in chester county waiting on phone call for a vehicle description.

Sorry for all the horrible Typing errors im not the best typer but if anyone has questions let me know and ill be happy to answer them for ya.

We really should listen to the sound advice of area69.
There have been enough genuine locals respond to say that the legend is just that. What we are doing is bragging about, and advocating illegal activity. I agree that if I was to live in a nice remote rural area, I would be awful cheesed off at the place becoming an impromtu tourist attraction for drunk teenagers and thrill seekers, I might start my own patrols if this were to happen.

urban legend indeed ,...or goverment grounds top secret stuff it it does pertain to secret societies that about explains the goverment secrecy,.. so urban legend i vote


the devil wants to allure an invitation to anybody that wants in ... the devil made me do it
the devil is in the details ,. has anyone heard of that expression?

his door always open so why would someone chase you away unless they were hiding something

immoral
illeagal
a coverup
conspiracy
etc

that may be the case
although those were very interesting to read about i personaly doubt the real exsh**ing reason why it would be a satanic occult or the devil i beleive it a perfect urban legend though

i think it does have a curiousity about it if it is actually as described but like i said before its something that is a private or illeagle matter.

thats even scarier.

Although new to this forum I have been intrested in this stuff for years and have been hooked on this thread from start to finish (have just completed reading all posts after initialy dipping in out of curiosity) it has everything.
Would just like to make some points/ask questions,

Real shame no pics of house or area (the couple on here of the tree etc were great)

As with all UL's parts have more holes than swish cheese

Do any of these vehicles mentioned have liscense plates?

Has anyone else heared of UL's that involve being chased by vehicles without lights out side of the US??

How far back does this UL go ??

Do i think somthing is going on? - possibly

Do i know what? - no

is this a good UL? - absoloutly!!!!

Just to finish and add a bit on Dupont - the company is very well known in the UK for a number of things but one of the main things is its aproach to health and safety, they are second to none and are the bench mark that most others are compared to, ironic to think they may be responsable for security forces chasing people in the dark with no lights!!!!

Great job to everyone this thread is great, the craic has been great following it, hope it will carry on running

Cheers Jester

that's creeeeeepy.... even creepier than me! lol, ok enough humor i've had a sh*tty day

that is messed up, It could be just someone else trying to mess with them but I dont know

i bet it's her, the one the only, my ex-girlfriend!!!!(no satanic cult or anything, just my ex) i've debunked it, hail to me!

Hehehe... isnt it funny how people want to take pics of area 51 and get their life erased by the agents and not take a photo or 2 of a house? ha!

And for those who think that its just people who want privacy how do you explain the residents not giving their name, not trying to stop all the gossip, and setting up guards who stalk people even after they leave the area???

As I know it Security is meant to keep people away from a curtain area within 100 metres, after that they are NOT allowed to stalk people. So what up with that?

And the last thing is, Why NOBODY posted pics except 4 that 1 person (thank you)???

I think these people are 12 year olds trying to act cool saying they went somewhere they didnt. How hard is it to take a pic and post it? Of the road? The security cars? House itself?

jeez...

just as a note, I have a copious amount of pictures from the road, and the skull tree. If anyone wants them, I can email them to you - just private message me or express interest in a reply to this post. The thing about taking photos of the house is that it's not so easy to pin down where it is. Contrary to popular belief, if you drive straight down Cossart Rd., it's not really all that obvious which one is the cult house. Like I said in my post with the pictures, there is a house near the skull tree that has a gate in front of its driveway, but this gate's description doesn't even match the one given by so many of you here. I've heard that the actual cult house is a turn or two off of Cossart Rd., which is info I didn't have at the time of my road trip. The thing is, I live about 2 hours away from the place, and I just can't afford the gas money to get out there every week to investigate. SO it's up to someone else. But anyhow, hope that clarifies why there aren't many pics of it.

While you raise a valid point about there behavior being odd of those who live on this road. I have still one basic question that raises a serious problem with many of this theories why haven't they CAUGHT anyone? I mean really think about it for a minute I mean doesn't it strike anyone else as odd that we aren't getting reports of people heading up there and never being seen again. We have first hand accounts of people in the area going up there as well as urban legend style accounts that people heard while in High School and all the wierd ones seem to have one thing common the people go up get scared and chased off and come back home you would think if something was really going on some would disappear.

Well, you have a point there, but doesent one of the guys here say they saw someone getting escorted into the house by guards? And wasnt the person covered in a blanket?
Maybe its someone who went to close to the house and was gonna be executed by the "cult" or something? How do you know the person was covered in a blanket because he had blood all over him? hmmm...

Well, i have very strange ideas... but thats another story.

I will admit you have a point about the person under the blanket it's strech but within the realm of possibilty.

On the 20th of December I went to the the house, or atleast tried to find it.
I asked around and a couple of people did know about the house and about the stories, some even claimed to have been there.
I spend the entire day looking, but couldn't find it.

It was to friggin cold to drive around aimlessly all day, so after a hour or 3 I called it quits.
Some guy offerd to bring us there, but the day he was free to take us we had to leave the erea.

Next time I'm there, this summer, I'll take out a few days to find it.

I sympathize for you, man, I went out there too -- took 2 hours to get there. Found the road, drove up and down it all day. It's really not obvious at all which one it's supposed to be. This really makes me think it's more of a legend, exaggerated over time.

an interesting story, quite intriguing; usually I bail out of these threads after a couple of pages but this one kept me hooked. there are similar tales of strange-goings-on in weird houses located in other states and they all seem to follow the same pattern: large house, secluded and located on a semi-private or "closed" road, supposed "satanic" activity, wealthy powerful owners, a team of strange security guards. this is not to say that I doubt the reports or believe that they're connected. I would urge those who feel the need to seek answers to do the following: recon the area and find out what is private and public property before barging into a bad situation. watch for any hidden video cameras; look in the trees, the woods, etc. if a fleet of menacing vehicles always shows up at a moment's notice, then they must have some sort of surveilance system. if at all possible, seek an alternate way in other than the front drive. daylight affords a much better view, and always, always bring a camera; even if it's a crappy shot, it's better than nothing.

i think i found it. i used that old link lisa sent in. i used the area andi think i found the road. Amsden Lane. or, off that road, there is a little turn off. everything else is hidden. the house that lisa found isnt really clear, but you can see it. i used GoogleEARTH. search for 'Ramsey Rd, Hockessin, DE 19707' if you have it.

Just to let anyone know who's interested, I've put up all of my Cossart Rd./Downingtown Tunnels pics on the internet for all to see. I never got an actual pic of the cult house (I got a snap of one house I thought it to be, but I'm really not convinced) but there's plenty of bent trees and cossart rd. pics there. The link is:

http://photobucket.com/albums/f201/mcshugar/

Interesting pics but what's up with the feet?

I am not saying i don't believe in it. Thou i am not saying i do but think of it this way. Alot of kids who have heard the stories could have painted the signs not to mention alot of tunnels have graffeti. Aside from that i have trees in my yard that are bent maybe its a defect in the gene's. Some people just want to be left alone. I mean come on If there was really things going on there im sure someone like the law would have cheaked it out. Not to mention have you ever thought that they just dont like people? The best way to scare someone is to create a story. Thou i guess i can't explain the people following them. Unless they are going to make sure you don't stop and pull on the side of the road to go walking to the house. I think all this is VERY curcumsatual. You need more solid evidence. If you dont get some i believe it will always be just that a urban ledgend. On the other hand who said they had to be doing something satanic. They could just be doing something plain illegal such as drugs. There are many things they could be doing and it would not mean they are worshipping the devil.

Actually Haruka circumstantial evidince they have presented actually could be viewed as proof that nothing satanic or illegal is going on up there all the theories have had two core problems one the lack of stories of anyone ever being caught by them and the fact that this place has become a tourist spot. I mean think about cults, drug labs, or some sort of sercet goverment or corporate experiement those are the most common theories there all going to want secercy and considering how much attention this place gets would have moved on many years go to another isolated country location.

The feet were my brother's feet, he was taking all the pics and he likes his feet I guess. Enjoy them!

am i missing something? wtf is Cossart Road? and Downington Tunnel?

maybe if you read the entire topic...

well maybe they dont want to go in because they're too scared. who knows what can happen inside the house?

Once again, I'd like to add that PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE THERE. You can't just go up to someone's house and take pictures like that, not to mention the very dense police coverage this place gets. There's a very good reason why this post is 14 pages long--this place is not secret. You guys wouldn't be the first ones attempting such a feat, and certainly not the last.

I'm really skeptical about these places. My grandma's place gets alot of unwanted attention. There are stories about the woods around her house. Supposively there's an indian burial ground back there somewhere. ..and there's supposed to be a bigfoot back there too. The woods really do have a creepy vibe, no one in the family will go in there. If you walk close to the edge of them, you hear noises from in there that sound like something is following you. Anyways, because of those stories, my grandma and her place sometime get stories. She's just a mean, greedy, secluded old woman, not anything that any of the "neighborhood folklore" make out. Extreme measures have been taken in the past to keep people off of her property.

So, I don't have any doubt that the guy living in the house is probably not a satanist and there's probably not anything weird going on there. Maybe there WAS in the past, but it sounds like the guy living there now is just sick of people messing around on his property. If he's anything like my grandma, he'd probably rather beat you over the head with a board and throw you off his land than explain anything to you. . .so would most the rest of the family. Besides, what if a newspaper did print an article debunking all the myths? How many people would read it and toss it aside and say "Yeah right, that place is screwy". I know I probably would if it was an article debunking something I firmly believed in. Measures are obviously being taken by people, if the skeleton tree has cement in it and they're cutting the other trees down. Maybe they just didn't want any more unwanted attention by having an article drawn up in the local paper. As for the people hiding around in the woods and the "gaurds", well, I understand that too. . .like I said, our family went through some extreme measures to keep people of my grandma's property.