@samsfamilytrip: ❤️ Follow @samsfamilytrip for more family adventures, hidden gems and places across America worth adding to your road trip! It’s 2026… and you still think this pool was just for swimming? 😳 Welcome to the indoor swimming pool at Biltmore Estate — built in the 1890s inside America's largest privately owned home. And while it looks like a pretty normal empty pool today, the way it worked back then was VERY different from what we know today. 👀 💧 There were no modern pool systems like the ones we use today. 🔥 According to someone who used to work at Biltmore, the water was heated using steam already being produced for heating around the estate. A large steam hose was placed in the water until it warmed up. 🪢 And those ropes you see? They were there for swimmers to hold onto. The craziest part? 🤯 There were no modern pool chemicals like chlorine being added to keep the water sanitized for long periods. So the water reportedly had to be drained and replaced regularly. Imagine having an indoor swimming pool inside your house… …but draining the entire thing every few days. 😳 Today, the pool is empty — but when Biltmore was built, this was considered incredibly advanced for its time. That's what I love about visiting historic places with kids. You don't just see a beautiful old house… You start realizing how differently people actually lived. 👀 Would you swim in this pool in the 1890s? 😂👇 📍 Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina #biltmore #biltmorehouse #asheville #vanderbilt
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Thursday 10 September 2026 06:38:38 GMT
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jenniferrucker0405 :
the Vanderbilt pool...🤬
2026-09-10 18:16:07
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larl777 :
Now show the picture Gloria Vanderbilt had above a bed of this pool 🥺
2026-09-10 14:57:11
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anonguy1 :
Gen Z = Conspiracy theory boomers
2026-09-10 23:45:30
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eli :
The ropes inside the historic indoor pool at the Biltmore Estate served a very practical purpose: they were designed to provide support for swimmers who needed a rest or were not strong swimmers.
Here's a bit more context about the pool and its history:
Key Details About the Pool
• Purpose of the Ropes: Back in the 1890s, swimming was not as common or mainstream as it is today. The ropes gave people something to hold onto if they got tired while swimming or needed a place to rest, especially those who might not have been confident in the water.
• Unique Features for its Time: The pool was a marvel of Gilded Age luxury. It could hold 70,000 gallons of water, was heated using steam from the estate's boilers, and featured underwater lighting—making it quite advanced for its era.
• Maintenance Challenges: A major drawback was the lack of modern pool technology. Without chlorine or filtration systems, the heated water would quickly become murky and stagnant. To keep it clean, staff had to drain the entire pool every few days and refill it from a nearby mountain reservoir.
Today, the pool is empty and preserved as a historic exhibit, but the ropes remain as a fascinating piece of its original design.
2026-09-10 20:07:56
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Sharp Pee :
That is the Vanderbilt house and the torture pool. Those who were never asleep know this!
2026-09-10 18:55:56
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In2TheMystic :
Empath and clairvoyant here. There is a dark energy in that room and I try to get through that part of the tour as quickly as I can . There are things lingering there that I want no part of.
2026-09-10 11:48:05
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heazrhymeswithpez ❌ :
I feel very old that I’ve swam in pools like this. Which were just pools, everything isn’t secretly sinister. 🙄
2026-09-10 18:49:04
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James Scott :
I don’t think that pool ever had water in it
2026-09-10 13:29:36
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Emily Rinaldi :
So if we aren’t supposed to think it’s do swimming what was it used for
2026-09-10 18:39:31
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C.A.S :
the ropes were standard safety equipment in pools during that time period. They were used like how we use life jackets now .
2026-09-10 17:42:16
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WORDGRL77 :
tiled for easy cleaning. let put a UV light to it, shall we
2026-09-10 18:17:13
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Jason Daugherty :
Watch "The Fall of The Cabal" It mentions how horrible things were done to children here and Comet Pizza has art work depicting kids bound and tortured in this exact pool.
2026-09-11 05:49:35
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Megg Anne :
Definitely a torture space
2026-09-10 19:58:08
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Gilberto Barrios :
the ropes were for non swimmers, a lot people didnt know how to swin back then.
2026-09-12 00:38:03
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Me :
It’s just a pool. The ropes were to help people grasp on if they needed help in the deeper end.
2026-09-10 17:21:04
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Troy Todhunter :
I know nothing of the back story on this place. but, why the actual does this look, and feel like people, died here, and not by accident. idk. even without the ominous music, it's a place of be not going near. Australia has some dark places and this gives the same "don't go there" vibe 😳
2026-09-12 07:01:17
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Slimetime392 :
I set foot in there and the energy was just HEAVY
2026-09-12 06:47:02
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Aimes :
Also looks like the setting in AHS hotel where the kids are in the coffins
2026-09-12 06:51:58
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NAUSICAA :
the ropes are for attaching the yachts
2026-09-12 05:34:01
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ZumbaMayZin :
I would love to spray Luminol (blood detecting) spray and see it light up like a dance club [Teary eyed]
2026-09-10 17:44:24
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Bobby :
Just a pool folks
2026-09-10 18:05:05
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Ariesonia :
The birthplace of Red bottom shoes
2026-09-10 20:12:29
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Brett🥓🥓🥓 :
omg it was just a pool. They were ungodly wealthy people that had an indoor pool. nothing more. nothing less 😂
2026-09-10 20:10:31
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Colton :
Don’t come at me but is that the same “pool” in AHS hotel? Where they kept all the kids???
2026-09-11 17:43:13
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Royce :
That’s just Woodhouse’s living quarters
2026-09-12 00:25:06
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