Eerie photos show a neighborhood of abandoned million-dollar McMansions

Seph Lawless

In June 2013, heavy rains led to a flood in the Canadian province of Alberta, causing an estimated 6 billion Canadian dollars ($4.3 billion) in property damage.

One of the hardest-hit areas was the town of High River, a suburb of Calgary.

In Beachwood Estates, a High River neighborhood full of million-dollar homes, floodwaters rose so high that residents had to abandon their properties, according to The Calgary Herald.

The photographer Seph Lawless documented the homes before they were sold or demolished earlier in 2017. He captured them, abandoned and eerie, awaiting their fate.

Beachwood Estates was once a thriving community full of pricey homes tucked among more modest ones.

Seph Lawless

Now the homes are empty and abandoned, virtually untouched for four years.

Seph Lawless

As part of a relocation platform, the Alberta government bought the homes, according to The Calgary Herald.

Seph Lawless

Source: The Calgary Herald

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