THIS property may look fairly ordinary but there is more to it than meets the eye.
A clue that the Las Vegas home is not all as it appears is revealed in its asking price of a hefty $5.9million.
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The Underground House at 3970 Spencer St, is mostly located 26-feet below the ground and was once a bomb shelter that has been turned into luxury home.
Covering 15,000-square feet, the property contains a pool, jacuzzi, casita, 500-feet of landscape murals, putting green and time-of-day lighting settings to copy the world outside – the ceiling has twinkling stars to imitate the night sky.
It also comes with artificial trees, faux rocks and life-like scenery.
The main living space is accessed by an elevator from the structure above ground.
“When you go down there, you’re in a capsule and go back in time,” Tee Thompson, a member of the secretive human life extension-enthusiast group Society for the Preservation of Near Extinct Species, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2018 while living in the space on behalf of the society. “I get to choose whether I want it day, night, dusk or dawn… When it is dark, it is pitch black, and it’s very peaceful and quiet. I don’t get to hear the outside elements. It’s beautiful being down here. If you’re not focused on what you’re doing, you lose track of time.”
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The unusual home, situated 2.5miles east of the Strip, was built for personal use by investor Jerry Henderson, a subterranean living enthusiast, in 1978.
Henderson, who owned a company called Underground World Homes, also had a 45,000-square-foot underground home in Colorado.
He built two bedrooms and an 800-square-foot caretaker house into his sunless Las Vegas bunker, where he lived with his wife Mary until his death in 1983.
When Henderson died, Mary moved upstairs into the townhouse she built above the bunker and lived there until she passed away in 1989.
Following their deaths both properties were foreclosed on, the Review-Journal says.
The bunker was then bought for $1.15m by the Society in 2014, which made several renovations to the property.
“Take an elevator ride down to an underground utopia,” advertised the current listing, which also features a number of digital renderings showing a couple standing in front of the underground house’s front doors, waving, the city street and sky above them.
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