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Anguilla's Most Wanted!...
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But, wait!
Don't think I'm about to compare villas of the Caribbean to such ghost-infested quarters.
As far as I'm concerned, Anguilla villas are monster-free!
There aren't any villas of the Caribbean whose windows are painted black.
Nor are there the places with over-grown, unruly ivy crawling up peeling, faded black clapboard.
But what about a house just as mysterious as the ones we've built in our imaginations?
On Anguilla, one comes to mind.
The Thai House
In most cases, mysteries are always solved and resolved.
Talk about being attached and in love with your house!
In every episode on Cartoon Network, Scooby-Doo & the Gang unmasked those bank robbers and diamond thieves time and time again!
The Thai House has a dark, rich and certainly mysterious appearance, just peaking out from its promontory overlooking
Shoal Bay East.
But it's always been a mystery that I just can't crack! (Maybe I need a Scooby Snack. ;-)
A few questions have always lingered...
Well, truth be told, I was able to manage a couple of my questions.
The mysterious mansion is owned by a man named Nick Douglass.
Bob Green explains on his Anguilla news site (news.ai)...
It is over 300 years old.
[Nick Douglass] had it taken apart in Thailand (just before it was due to be destroyed to make way for modern construction) and reassembled above Shoal Bay.
In order to get an export permit and to satisfy the Thai gods he had to have a specialist from Thailand come and ensure that it was put back in exactly the same arrangement of buildings and then ritually clean it.
I know the feeling.
When we moved out and away from the home I had lived in all my life, I begged
my parents to bring it with us... But they simply said, "No!"... Too bad Nick Douglass isn't my Dad!
Anyway, on my checklist of mysteries to investigate of this most enigmatic villas of the Caribbean, I had two crossed off...
It's owner.
It's history.
From the first point I checked off spawns a new question.
Who is Nick Douglass?
We'll have to take some fingerprints for that one. I still don't have an answer!
But courtesy of another website, PennySlinger.com, I found some photos of the interior of the villa...
Photo Taken From: PennySlinger.com
Photo Taken From: PennySlinger.com
Photo Taken From: PennySlinger.com
Doesn't that blow your mind?
It's an exotic, Asian dream.
I can feel the steam of green tea.
I can smell the rich, mahogany wood.
I can hear a gong in the distance.
At last, my mind can be at ease.
I've seen the Thai House's decor, inside.
But of course, my curious mind can't rest ever.
What does the rest of this luxurious villa look like?
And that ever-present, most important question of all time...
How can I peak inside?
Oh, I will crack this mystery!
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