This hardly counts for any sort of urbex, but I find it really interesting and think about it a lot

So when my dad was growing, he lived in a really old house, with an attached shed thing (like a really, really small enclosed porch), which had been used as a tool shed. There must have been kids living in the house before my dad, because written on the walls of the shed was "JIMMY WAS HERE" and the like.

Now, if I had found that in my house, I would have found that pretty cool in itself. But it gets better.

At some point, my dad's family had a rummage sale of sorts, and apparently an old man came up to the house, about 90 years old, and struck up a conversation with my dad and his family, mentioning that him and his little brother Jimmy had lived in that house growing up.

So I guess it was that old man and his brother who had written that on the walls years earlier.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.

Incidentally in the same house, in a corner of the attic, my dad found a small newspaper clipping stuck to a rafter with a thumbtack.

The contents of the clipping?

A poem, titled The Attic.


These things always make me wonder. Like, will someone 50 years down the line move into my house, replace the carpeting, only to find how I signed and dated a small corner of the floor in my room?

I guess it just interests me, that when you stand in an abandoned building, you're standing in the walls that have seen lives, stories, tears, laughter.

I dunno. I'm a writer, going off of 3 hours of sleep, so anything I write is going to end up closing in on existentialism. So yeah. I guess that's it. Thank

Thats a cool way to look at things. I think the same way about abandoned houses.

Is that Brendon Urie in your display photo? :o

Posted by Skye_Ann Is that Brendon Urie in your display photo? :o

Indeed it is.

My brother Alex just finished putting in a drain system for his leaking basement. It involved breaking up the concrete next to the walls and putting in a rubber tube to allow the water to drain out. Cheaper than tearing up the yard outside. When it came time to cement the floor back, we put our names in the cement along with the year.

Sure 2014 is now, and in 2020 the year 2014 won't be anything too distant. But perhaps in 2100 when the future homeowner arrives home by heli-car from his day job of working Minority Report, and they dig up their basement, they'll look back and think... wow, wonder who they were.

Posted by nychtophilia Incidentally in the same house, in a corner of the attic, my dad found a small newspaper clipping stuck to a rafter with a thumbtack.

I went to a grade school that was built in 1926. Our grade 8 class had a cloak room which was the access point to the attic. A friend of mine & I climbed up into the attic late one night & we put up a newspaper from that day in 1977. We wrote our names & phone numbers on the paper & hung it up on the rafters with other newspapers left from previous students dating back to the 1930's.

I don't know if the papers are still there, but the school is still going strong. They have an open house & fund raiser every spring. I might have to pay a visit one of these years & see if there is anything still up there.

When i was a pretty young lad, i put together a time capsule of sorts and placed it in the wall of my childhood home. I wonder if someone will ever find it. I wish i could remember what i placed in it.

time capsules are pretty cool, I never found one but I did find a 1928 hunting license under the butt plate of an antique shotgun I was working on

guy told me the shotgun was his dad's from the 1930s though, hmmm...

My smart-ass brother in law once put on a beam in a wall they were remodeling, "you'll find my body in the basement". haha

The basement of this place is old, dirty, full of cobwebs, and a strange room off the side that is just dirt, we never figured out what it was for. (Possibly to store potatoes or something, we have one like that at my current apartment I live in.)

I'm hoping to find something cool in the attic or behind the walls of the circa 1850 house we're living in. We haven't started doing any renovations yet but we have a weird wall in the library that must have a fireplace behind it. Would love to find some writing or something!

There's a shop downtown that does pretty good business, but the attic is abandoned. I've been thinking of trying to find my way up there someday if I can get passed the employees. Rumor has it that a ghost lives up there.


Granted, I will be legitimately shocked if I find anything up there besides dust and old sports gear, but it would make a cool place to see none the less.