--- title: $1 Million Mansion Goes Viral for Very Spooky Interiors description: A mansion selling for a million dollars in Australia has gone viral for scaring the Internet with its spooky, haunted interiors. canonical: https://time.com/5672158/haunted-australian-mansion/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-09T15:53:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:11.961Z og:title: $1 Million Mansion Goes Viral for Haunted, Spooky Interiors og:description: For brave souls only! og:url: https://time.com/5672158/haunted-australian-mansion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt721dcf3b65724888/698a0291b3fce368ad0c581a/one-million-dollar-mansion-haunted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Abandoned wooden house. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: $1 Million Mansion Goes Viral for Haunted, Spooky Interiors twitter:description: For brave souls only! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt721dcf3b65724888/698a0291b3fce368ad0c581a/one-million-dollar-mansion-haunted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Everyone's Taking a Spooky Journey Through a $1 Million Mansion That Might Also Be a Gate to Hell > Sponsored content. 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Abandoned wooden house in the moonlit night.Halloween background. igorr1—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 9, 2019 3:53 PM UTC An Australian [mansion](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2043496,00.html) with a million dollar listing is going viral for its spooky interiors that are more [haunted house](https://time.com/4069470/life-most-haunted-places/) than [Hearst Castle.](https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places-2019/5654134/hearst-castle-san-simeon-california/) The home, which is located in Magill, SA, is called the Woodforde House and was built in 1856\. It boasts two stories of ten rooms and a tiny chapel, a roof top and double cellars. Those looking at the listing are should not be easily spooked, however; many of the rooms are decorated with skeletons, ghosts, ghouls and demonic mannequins and images, which the realtor kindly described as “not for the faint hearted.” “Brave people only, leave the kids at home or keep them supervised” the agent, Anthony Toop wrote in a note on the listing, which also stated that the family who previously owned the home said that it’s equivalent to “the fun and good times as Mrs. Bates.” Duly noted! 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