Inside the bizarre Las Vegas underground doomsday mansion that just sold for $4.5M

A famed Las Vegas mansion built for the end of the world has perhaps found its most fitting new owner — a ghost hunter.“Ghost Adventures” star Zak Bagans paid $4.55 million for the legendary Las Vegas Underground House, a bizarre Cold War-era bunker mansion buried 26 feet below an otherwise ordinary-looking property — just minutes from the Strip, according to Neon and KTNV.The 48-year-old paranormal investigator plans to preserve the property and eventually open it to the public as as a museum, turning one of Sin City’s strangest private homes into a full-blown attraction.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story But the underground mansion’s story was wild long before Bagans showed up.Hidden beneath 3970 Spencer St.near Flamingo Road in Las Vegas’ east valley, the subterranean estate was completed in 1978 for Avon executive, philanthropist and Dawson School founder Girard “Jerry” Henderson and his wife, Mary, according to UNLV Special Collections.The property spans more than an acre and includes five bedrooms and six bathrooms across the above-ground home, underground residence and casita, according to its Zillow listing.But the real showpiece is below: a 14,620-square-foot subterranean estate with an indoor swimming pool, putting green, theater, dance floor, bar, saunas, hot tubs, hand-painted murals sculpted fake trees and a programmable faux sky designed to mimic the rhythm of day and night.It was not some concrete panic room with canned beans stacked in the corner.It was a full-blown luxury fantasy for nuclear survival — a place where the rich could ride out Armageddon with cocktails, climate control and wall-to-wall 1970s Las Vegas flair.Henderson, who made a fortune through business interests including Avon, had long been fascinated by safe...