You know, this would be a good place for a very frugal Batman.
Thanks to the Zillow Gone Wild (@zillowgonewild) Twitter account, a modest, unassuming house in northeast San Antonio has actually gone wild — or viral. Even batty.
The listing at 24811 Creek Loop looks like your standard suburban home. It’s a four-bedroom, three-bath, 2,745-square-foot stucco dwelling with a spacious garage on 2.56 acres. The first 37 photos accompanying the list are nothing unusual.
Then, you get to the 38th photo in the slideshow.
Holy Batcave! The house has its very own natural bridge cavern. No wonder the garage is so large —it needs room for a Batmobile.
But the fact that it’s listed for $875,000 means you don’t have to be billionaire Bruce Wayne to afford your own bat cave. It’s located in the gated Seven Hills Ranch Property Owners Association subdivision near Natural Bridge Caverns, which are the largest known commercial caverns in Texas.
“The house is very nice, but the setting and the cavern make it unique,” listing agent Lori Largen from JBGoodwin Realtors told Newsweek.
The property has been on sale since early July and is now in active option, meaning the seller has accepted an offer and the buyer has an option period remaining in which they could legally back out, according to SanAntonioMag.com
The cave on the property was discovered in 2004 when the owners were clearing land to build the house, according to Newsweek. The owners noticed cool air would sometimes blow from a hole in the ground, so they contacted geologists from Natural Bridge Caverns and St. Mary’s University.
- 2004: A carbon dioxide test and a ground radar machine suggested cave-type activity.
- 2011: A pool company dug a 6-foot-deep hole that would later become the cave’s entrance from the house.
- 2016: A company drilled through rock and made a walkable tunnel that leads to cave rooms. (Batman fans probably would’ve preferred a pole to slide down to get into the cave.)
The cavern has the standard stalactites, stalagmites, and towering stone formations you’d expect. In the listing, the owners listed $87,000 in costs associated with excavating, lighting, electricity, and more.
In case you were interested in the house, it has large walk-in closets in every bedroom, tile floors in the kitchen, a large family room … yada, yada, yada.
Face it, we’re just interested in the cave.
