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| Steven Huff in front of Chateau Pensmore © The Kansas City Star |
Huff is an astrophysicist who also happens to be ex-CIA and Army intelligence. He founded a few different companies that developed satellite-imaging software for military and intelligence use, and then he sold his very successful businesses to the industrial manufacturer Textron.¹ ² Now, he is a board member and investor in the concrete company TF Concrete Forming Systems, which built Pensmore.²
What makes Pensmore special, aside from its massive size, is what it is made of. The concrete used to build the mansion is reinforced with Helix, a steel fiber additive that strengthens the concrete and makes it more flexible, allowing it to withstand pretty much anything that could pose a threat, including fire, bombs, bugs, and any kind of natural disaster you can think of. Huff was quoted in The Kansas City Star in 2015 saying, "I think this house will be standing 2,000 years from now."¹
Huff built Pensmore as a model for how he thinks buildings should be constructed in the future. The mansion is equipped with all sorts of clean-energy sources, and the strength of the concrete should make it an extraordinarily safe structure. He built the home to this size so it could serve as a sort of research laboratory on sustainability and building techniques, and he plans to invite researchers and students from a variety of disciplines to study there.²
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| Chateau Pensmore in Christian County, Missouri © Springfield News-Leader |
Huff very deliberately chose to build in the Ozarks for a number of reasons. Temperatures in southern Missouri can swing from triple digits in the summer to below-zero readings in the winter, making it a perfect location to test the effects of different climates. Also, it is an area that could be susceptible to tornadoes, earthquakes, and other extreme weather conditions. It also sits in a relatively secluded area, giving Huff and his family some measure of privacy (even though it is just a vacation home). Finally, the governmental approach in the area makes it possible for Huff to build without the oversight of government regulations or inspections.²
Interesting, yes, but what about a conspiracy? With Pensmore, there are plenty to choose from. Huff's unique background along with the sheer size of Pensmore have caused neighbors and other curious parties to guess at ulterior motives for the construction. Some have claimed the mansion must be the new headquarters for the Illuminati or some other New World Order group, considering its massive size and practically indestructible nature. This theory assumes the group either knows about a pending world-altering disaster or has one in the works, and they will be using Pensmore as a home base in the aftermath.³
Others have guessed that Pensmore must be acting as a secret military installation, possibly for research on extraterrestrial life, weapons, or who knows what.³ With Pensmore's size, it could be hiding any plethora of secrets.
Several people have claimed to see entrances to a maze of underground tunnels in the land beneath and around the mansion, sparking all sorts of talk. Additionally, neighbors say they have seen mysterious vehicles and helicopters going in and out of the property. One neighbor said he heard a train one night, coming from the direction of the mansion, but no trains run through the area.¹ Another man claimed he tried to fly his drone over the mansion but it malfunctioned.³
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| Pi and the Liberty Tree alternating at Pensmore's roof line © Providenceforum.org |
Interestingly, two symbols can be seen repeatedly in both the interior and exterior of Pensmore: the pi symbol and the Liberty Tree, which are frequently seen together throughout the home. The Liberty Tree was a large elm that once stood in Boston and served as a meeting point for the American colonists who were staging resistance against the British monarchy before the Revolution.⁴ Could Huff be evoking this historical symbol to show defiance to the current government?
Additionally, Huff keeps a herd of Ossabaw Island hogs on the property. A potential food source after the destruction of life as we know it? Possibly. In his interview with The Kansas City Star, Huff said the hogs provide "very healthy meat."¹
Of course, Huff denies all these claims and says he built the chateau basically just so he could prove that a structure of this caliber could exist and be sustainable. He thinks that with his home as a model, schools, hospitals and other buildings in the future can be safer, more durable and more efficient. So, is Huff a benevolent altruist, or is he a sadistic leader (or pawn) of some shadow government, or maybe even our own government? There is no telling, because so far, all of Huff's secrets are safe behind the thick concrete walls of Pensmore.
¹ https://www.kansascity.com/living/home-garden/article51616315.html
³ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/08/conspiracies-and-strangeness-at-the-mysterious-pensmore-mansion/
⁴ https://providenceforum.org/story/history-liberty-tree/
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