Intensely creepy footage showing the inside of an abandoned swingers’ mansion has been recorded by an urban explorer.
The Tiki Palace – in Chattanooga, Tennessee – was built by strip club tycoon Billy Hull in 1972.
The 5,600 square foot home played host to hundreds of seedy parties and was known for its Playboy bunny-shaped pool featuring ear-shaped swimming tunnels that lead to the bedrooms.
The 5,600 square foot home played host to hundreds of seedy parties and was known for its Playboy bunny-shaped pool featuring ear-shaped swimming tunnels that lead to the bedrooms
The Tiki Palace – in Chattanooga, Tennessee – was built by strip club tycoon Billy Hull in 1972
But the place was left to rot 12 months later after Hull was charged with hiring a hitman to murder his wife Gloria’s lover and pleaded guilty to income tax evasion
Hull was jailed for 20 years for hiring an assassin to kill Roland Hargis, as he emerged from the Tradewinds nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee
But the place was left to rot 12 months later when Hull was charged with hiring a hitman to murder his wife Gloria’s lover and pleaded guilty to income tax evasion.
Hull was jailed for 20 years for hiring an assassin to kill Roland Hargis, as he emerged from the Tradewinds nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The building has since been earmarked for demolition after becoming a magnet for vandals who have smashed the building and covered it in graffiti – including ‘Trump 2016’ in red spray paint.
Hull’s grandmother Katie Holcomb had run a bootleg whiskey operation, and he was convicted of tax evasion in relation to her estate when she died in 1969.
Before: The entrance to the mansion in 1972, with the distinctive Polynesian-style figures, known as Tikis, on either side of the front door
After: The entrance in disrepair after the mansion was abandoned due to the owner’s arrest and imprisonment
This photograph, published in 1972 in a trade magazine, is believed to show Billy Hull and his wife Gloria in their new home. Barely a year later Hull (left) was jailed for hiring a man to kill his wife’s lover, Roland Hargis
Eerie footage taken in February – shortly before the bulldozers were due to move in – shows chandeliers still hanging from the ceiling and gym equipment in bedrooms.
But the iconic Playboy bunny-shaped swimming pool is now full of debris and covered in graffiti. Smashed glass covers the floor – and even bullet holes can be seen in some of the walls.
Alex Bobulinski, who captured the footage with his urban exploration group Spectral Wolfpack, said: ‘Inside I found the Playboy bunny pool filled with trash and debris, yet the room itself was beautiful to me.
‘I crept through the Tiki Palace carefully, staying observant the whole time.
The building has since been earmarked for demolition after becoming a magnet for vandals who have smashed the building and covered it in graffiti – including ‘Trump 2016’ in red spray paint
But the iconic Playboy bunny-shaped swimming pool is now full of debris and covered in graffiti. Smashed glass covers the floor – and even bullet holes can be seen in some of the walls
The man who captured the footage – Alex Bobulinski – said: ‘I could tell that this place had seen some wild parties in its day. You could just feel it. There was probably endless alcohol, drugs and women’
‘I could tell that this place had seen some wild parties in its day. You could just feel it. There was probably endless alcohol, drugs and women.
‘Now it was filled with endless debris and vandalism. It was one of my favorite houses I’ve explored, and I’m definitely sad that it has been demolished.’
It is not clear if Hull died in Deberry Correctional Institute near Nashville, Tennessee, or was released, and nobody knows what happened to Gloria Hull.