The "Chimera House" (also known as the "13 Floor Money Back House" or the "13 Floor House" or the "Spookhouse") is a legendary house found in urban legends that is situated in a remote area and supposedly a large, worn down multiple storey building housing unimaginable horrors within its many rooms, it is said visitors (especially usual young teenagers going out for a night on the town) are offered great sums of money (anywhere from 20-100 dollars) to enter every room within such a building as if it were a haunted house attraction, but the twist about this mythical "spookhouse" is that none have successfully done so - with some who venture too deep into the "Chimera House" disappearing forever.
The "Chimera House" is said to contain demons, ghosts, deformed humans, aliens, undead or any other horrors imaginable - the "Chimera House" may not even be a house at all but a portal to a hellish dimension or outer plane.
Accounts vary as to the exact number of floors in a Chimera House, but most accounts give the house 13 floors (often coinciding or corresponding with the 13th Floor myth).
The Chimera legend is usually set in the south or midwest of the United States of America since there are a large amount of open and unknown areas in those parts. The editor of Haunted Attraction Magazine believes the urban legend originally started in Kansas City while others have suggested that the legend was also inspired by real haunted attractions like Britannia Manor and Raven's Grin Inn. Although the Chimera House has never been proven to exist, some people still search fervently for it and several haunted attractions are asked if they are the infamous 13 floor haunted house every October.
The legend of the Chimera House has been fueled by both hoaxes and haunted attractions that tried to cash in on the said mythology by offering refunds if certain conditions are met. The anthology Haunted Houses edited by Robert D. San Souci contains a short story inspired by the legend called "Chimera House". in which several inner-city youths are led to the infamous haunted attraction.
Despite the "Chimera House" being a fictional location many people seek it out, usually more as a thrill-seeking rite of passage than an actual desire to enter the place, it is also in some ways an inspiration for the infamous horror movie "House Of 1000 Corpses" directed by heavy metal artist Rob Zombie.
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