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Outside, the famous “Tomb Villa”, or Tomb Villa, in Vietnamese province Ben Tre looks like ordinary mansion. But go inside – and you will see that in the living room instead the usual dining table is a marble tombstone in complete with a house temple dedicated to the person who is here buried.
Life in a house where a tomb is located in the middle of the living room – than not a horror movie plot? However, for residents of the mansion that is located in Tan Tha Commune, that’s okay there is no neighborhood. It should be noted that Vietnamese law allows bury people only in cemeteries or in the holy land of churches and temples. Why, in this case, was an exception made?
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This story began on January 28, 1960, when the local a resident of Dang Thi Nhan gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Tran Thi Kim Lien. The family was poor but at 21, Lien emigrated to the United States with her fishing husband States where she became a manicurist, and then began to practice interior design. Thanks to this, the woman became wealthy man and could regularly send money to her Vietnamese family.
At the beginning of the new millennium, Lien visited her native commune and decided to build a chic mansion here for herself, her mother and three brothers. She began to finance this construction from the USA, and the brothers eventually built a beautiful villa, the richest in Tan tha.
However, Tran Thi Kim Lien herself, having returned from America, lived in the new luxury home is only a few months old cancer and was forced to again leave for the USA for treatment. But also American doctors did not save the woman. Before death (died May 10 2007) she asked her mother to bury her in the same she built a house in which Lien never found earthly happiness.
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Mother and brothers fulfilled the last will of the dying. So in the mansion a tomb appeared, and the house itself became known as the “Tomb Villa”, or Tomb Villa. Almost all members attended Lien’s funeral communes, as well as representatives of the authorities of Ben Tre Probably, for this reason, the law of Vietnam in this case was circumvented …
The youngest is currently living in the mansion with his family. brother of the deceased – Tran Van Tuan. Coming to the commune (Tomb Villa attracts many tourists from all over the world) often they ask him: is it not frightening to live in such a house? is there a ghost of lien in it? For twelve years, the man says, none of we did not notice anything like it. Moreover, we are all very used to to the tomb and the temple, and we cannot imagine our home without them.
Apparently, the soul of Tran Thi Kim Lien, who built this glorious mansion out of love for his loved ones and his homeland, rested with peace, and therefore there is no and there can be no ghosts …
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