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Searching for William Randolph Hearst’s Mystical Mountain Retreat

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Pictures from kayaking the river

https://www.cacreeks.com/mccloud1.htm

Could it be this one?

https://househistree.com/houses/the-bend

https://goo.gl/maps/NKpxM7P3hG17vWYf9

Edit:

I didn’t see the mark before ( I did not search it ) Wyntoon https://goo.gl/maps/kHGj8D6dwppCNxd4A

It looks like there are a couple of more boring, more modern houses on the estate now, along with the "Bavarian village" along the river.

I'm fascinated by Wyntoon.

Occasionally I'll meet someone who works for the Hearst corporation - at the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper for example - and inevitably when I ask them if they've been to Wyntoon (now owned by the corporation) they will say something like that their boss's boss has been once but they're not yet high enough up the ladder to score an invite.

I had never heard of this so found the article interesting but it seems like this place is clearly real so I am a little confused why the article is written the way it is.

I mean I think you can safely discard any notion that this article is written to be convincing when it makes no mention of satellite imagery one way or another.

Conspiracy clickbait given there’s actually recent pictures of the place. If the guy really was dedicated to figuring it out, could’ve hopped the gate, flew a drone, or just kayaked down.

The constant tone of “how could anyone believe that!” on totally believable stuff. Like why would the family donate money to the fire department (according to the pics, it’s heavily wooded) if they didn’t want them to protect their property.

Again the whole point is moot because you can see the pictures

A revolting display of wealth that should be a public park a la Hearst castle.

"it takes every kinda people To make what life's about" - Robert Palmer.

Sure, it's in poor taste while there are more humane ways to spend one's capital. I don't know, maybe cleaning up the oil-polluted shores of Nigeria [1] (which if you drive a car or take a bus is all of our fault). However, while I don't care for the imbalance, I do find these eccentric expenditures by billionaires as having value for human kind - I view it as a form of art.

If you think the Hearst estate is crazy nonsense - get a load of the Winchester house (2), which percolates my imagination while at the same time makes me shake my head.

This stuff adds a level of whimsical fantasy to life that is tangible, and it stretches the bounds of what we previously (as a species) deemed imrpobable if not impossible. I'm not asshamed to say I enjoy this facet of the stained glass window of life. I'm not saying your feelings are right or wrong, I'm just posing another perspective that may help find the silver lining. For better or worse, the fabric of life takes every kind of people, and I happen to tend to think there is a little more good in this stuff than bad.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/06/t...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

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