Case file · Haunting
Villa de Vecchi, the 'ghost house'
Count Felice De Vecchi's villa above Cortenova, near Lake Como, was finished in the 1850s; in 1862 his wife was found murdered and he disappeared, reportedly a suicide. The abandoned villa is called the Casa Rossa or ghost house.
1862 CE · 46.01, 9.38 · status: legend
The sceptical view
Much of the dark history is unverified local tradition, magnified online.