Trellick Tower
"Tower of Terror"
Originally commissioned in 1966, Trellick Tower rose from the rubble of demolished homes and streets deemed “unfit for habitation”. Old ghosts buried beneath new concrete.
Right from the start, it had an unsavoury reputation. Stories began to circulate. Whispers of something wrong.
A local news article referred to "a miasma of violence and squalor" that clung to the walls. It went on to describe "a stench of fear and desperation that would seep from shadows... the lights would be smashed...the corridor vandalised into gloom."
The lifts failed unpredictably. Power and water vanished for days at a time. One elderly resident collapsed and died climbing the stairs during an outage. On the 15th floor, a woman was dragged into the stairwell and raped. Another leapt from her balcony.
And then there was the smell. A strange, gas-like odour that drifted through the tower. Residents complained to the local council repeatedly, but the issue was never resolved. They reported feeling perpetually lethargic and spending days in inexplicable exhaustion.
Times change, and by the late 1990s, Trellick had become a sought-after location to live in. The building now holds Grade II listed status and The London Daily News described Trellick as “frightening, but now fashionable.”
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