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Why did they leave?
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I was looking at Freaktography's post; "Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind".

https://www.uer.ca...=1&threadid=128458

It got me wondering. Has anyone visited a similar "time capsule" that they know the full history on? The people that lived there, and why they left their literal lives behind? I suspect living alone followed by death is very common, but why has no one come to sort their lives out? Why is it not cleaned out and for sale? Is there really no one to care enough to collect the things that were close to their hearts? The trophies, family pics, children's drawings and toys I see in all of these locations is just heart breaking. What happened?!

Someone.... Anyone.... Tell me a story! Included pics of the location would be a great bonus!




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factory worker housing. factory closed.


mental asylum worker housing. asylum closed.


house was built in a marsh near a river that flooded too many times


this entire apartment complex got old and fell into such disrepair that the city of Trenton NJ took it over and closed it (demolished it 20 years after closing it).


these are some photos i found inside that apartment building



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factory worker housing. factory closed.
http://www.marcree...Shw/1_img_1442.jpg

mental asylum worker housing. asylum closed.
http://www.marcree...Shw/1_img_1437.jpg

house was built in a marsh near a river that flooded too many times
http://www.marcree...Shw/1_img_1455.jpg

this entire apartment complex got old and fell into such disrepair that the city of Trenton NJ took it over and closed it (demolished it 20 years after closing it).
http://www.marcree...dShw/1_img_305.jpg

these are some photos i found inside that apartment building
http://www.marcree...dShw/1_img_314.png


ACK!!! Good god I hate clowns......





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Off the top of my head Freaktography is one of the masters at time capsules and digging up history on his finds. Ground State and Wolfheart also have a knack for finding for lack of a better term, "walk-aways."

There's not a lot out this way, but we stumbled upon one that had that weird combination of open-to-the-elements doors and roof holes, allowing any wild animal to pass through, plus change still scattered about the dresser and dishes in the sink. It would be an antiquers dream but the outside was infiltrating the beauty left behind.

The setup painted a picture of a old man who lost his wife so had given away his bed, preferring to sleep alone in his lazyboy until it was his turn. Her items were still in the house but his messiness had taken over in the end. One room was haphazardly turned into his reloading room, with casing scattered about.

There were boxes of letters from a son overseas during the 40's, photos, slides, etc.

The mail always helps with the research later. It turns out the boy in the boxes was the man in the chair. His parents had died, he took over the place with his bride, she had indeed went first, then him shortly after. The land had been sold instead of the house. It was purchased for farming and no one had need or want for the contents inside.

I've returned a few times to see random things disappear. There's two beehives there now. The elk that seemed to take up most of the living room is gone. The old piano is sagging. The big beautiful freezer box/china display hutch is still buried in a room under old keepsakes and animal poop.

It was spooky the first time, feeling like you were inside someone somehow trying not to wake them. No matter how thick the dust and mold, it still felt like they could return any minute.

Here's some photos from further and further back


Decline by No Stone Unturned
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His wife's life parted...
Comfort followed from their bed.
So it was removed from the house justly.
And he slept and joined her, by the chair instead.



Turn over by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr
Every spin
Every cycle
They imagined their control.
Every keystroke played along and added
The needle outlast them all.

Notes dancing on one axis
No more groove space left to notch.
The maker's still left standing
But their time has lost its watch.



Untitled by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr


Abandoned sideboard top by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr


Silvertone Phonograph by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr


Left behind by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr


Elk room by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr

Bad kitchen pano

Kitchen Pano by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr


Shooting styles by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr



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Mr. Bitey 


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Off the top of my head Freaktography is one of the masters at time capsules and digging up history on his finds. Ground State and Wolfheart also have a knack for finding for lack of a better term, "walk-aways."



Like I said - I didn't think these would be happy stories. Thank you for sharing.




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"2xplorations is SNITCHING IN THE PSW"

OH SHIT - Wrong thread! LOL

Thanks Skratchkins, appreciate the love!

That is one amazing location you've got there and great photos as well!




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"2xplorations is SNITCHING IN THE PSW"



TROLOLOLOL!




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Six years ago a friend of mine, unconnected to exploring, tipped me off about an abandoned house near where he was working. He said it was rammed full of stuff and that it might be worth checking out, well that's all I needed to be told so I organised a visit with a couple of friends.

The first things we saw as we approached up the overgrown drive were a handful of seriously rusty vehicles.





The house was a series of largely wooden - for want of a better word - shacks connected by a series of linking corridors and other rooms all constructed randomly and totally irregularly. Really unique in terms of dwellings I have explored. It had been abandoned for some time and a lot of the structure was in a bad way being made mostly of wood and hidden in the woods. He was correct in it being totally rammed full of stuff, a classic hoarder scenario taken to an extreme coupled with around a decades worth of abandonment. It was a total mess inside with stuff strewn everywhere, sometimes the only way to cross rooms was to clamber over piles of stuff knee deep on the floor. There were also numerous outbuildings all packed with belongings. The kitchen was the easiest to photograph and most interesting of all the rooms as it contained a large piano.



I went back a couple of times and gradually a tragic story began to emerge about the family who lived in the house. They were a husband and wife who lived there with at least one child called Kingsley, Sonia (the mother) was a teacher, and her husband kept bee colonies. The house was filled with personal effects of mostly Sonia, the lady of the house, buried under piles of rubbish I decided to dig out on a subsequent visit. Photos, passports, ID documents, business documents etc etc.









However buried in a pile of assorted paperwork in the kitchen was a letter that completely floored me.



The letter was bundled together with Kingsley's last birthday cards and some drawings.







In the drawer of a filing cabinet I found a series of photos of both Kingsley and his mother.



I've never been so emotionally affected by an explore before or since, this was something else, something strange that I'd never experienced before. Descendants of the husband's side of the family used the house (I say used because I think they may have just used it to store stuff) until the early 2000s when it fell into disrepair. Back then when we first visited it - and we were the first - the grounds were too overgrown to see the multitude of beehive boxes that later came to give the house the name of 'Beekeepers House' in exploring circles when it's location eventually got out.

At present almost the entire house has succumbed to nature and collapsed in on itself, with only the concrete entrance hallway still standing.



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I went back a couple of times and gradually a tragic story began to emerge about the family who lived in the house.


That seriously gave me chills. The pictures, card, Kingsley's writing... This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping this post would produce. Visiting bandos is one thing, but feeling the lives of those who left it is quite another. Thank you for sharing!





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Several years ago I came across a time capsule house; a rather large 2-story foreclosure in the middle of an otherwise quiet and unassuming suburban neighborhood.

Many things left behind. Closets still half full, kitchen cabinets still stocked with dishes, old computers in a home office, sheet music atop a small piano.

In my time there across several visits I was able to piece together some of the story of the family who live there. The husband was a businessman who spent a fair deal of time working from home. The wife a teacher for the local school district. A young son and an older daughter between them.

At the time they left it was the middle of the housing crisis; when the housing bubble burst in my area. The husband lost his job when the company he was working for made the decision to relocate out of state. The salary of a teacher wasn't enough to keep the family afloat. They went into massive debt; eventually filing bankruptcy and defaulting on their loan. Leading the house to be seized by their bank and foreclosed.

Not the most spectacular reason for a home to be abandoned in such a state. But given both the time period in which it was abandoned; an all too common one for my area.




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At the time they left it was the middle of the housing crisis; when the housing bubble burst in my area. The husband lost his job when the company he was working for made the decision to relocate out of state. The salary of a teacher wasn't enough to keep the family afloat. They went into massive debt; eventually filing bankruptcy and defaulting on their loan. Leading the house to be seized by their bank and foreclosed.



Life isn't fair... That's for sure. What a kick in the dick. Lose your job, your house, who knows what else... Then to watch their former loved home rot... Ugh. I hope they move far away and have no clue....




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I suggest you give this thread a read.


http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=124072


I have explored this house as well, but Ground State captured it much better than myself, he was also the one to discover this unique and amazing place.

I have explored a handful of "time capsule" houses, primarily in Southern Ontario, although I have a long list of potentially good ones in my stomping grounds of Western New York
Usually there is a simple and logical reason for everything being left behind.
The owner passed away or is in a nursing home. They have no family or close friends, or perhaps their family lives out of state or out of the country. Or they are otherwise unable or unwilling to take care of their relatives estate.
Other times the property may be caught up in lengthy court proceedings. This is common when there is no will, or a family member disputes the will.

The house in the link above, known as "Sandra's House" for obvious reasons, does not fit any of these categories. After I was shown the place by a friend and fellow explorer last year I became somewhat obsessed with the mystery of what happened to Sandra and her family.
I know their last name (which is a rather unusual name), her fathers name, their address, where Sandra went to school and worked, the year she was born, etc. I have spent hours and hours combing the internet for any record of them and there is absolutely nothing. Nothing current and nothing past. I still think about it to this day.

The property has since been sold, likely to a developer, I hope to make it up there soon and dig around for more information before it is all lost for good.




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I suggest you give this thread a read.



Thanks for directing me to that one. Those pics were amazing....





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This house was similar to a time-capsule... If you packed it to the brim full of stuff and then shook it like a snow globe.

https://www.flickr.../72157658211691546

There was a name/address within the home that led to a similarly-looking abandoned house in Indiana... At least from what google maps showed.

There were lots of lottery tickets and Vegas memorabilia around, so I like to think the couple won the lottery or hit the jackpot in vegas and just left their old lives behind.




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I've found foreclosre houses seem to be a weird mix of time capsule and total destruction. There was this one house where the downstairs was clean (aside from fallen pieces of cieling and a door that was probablu kicked down by a vandal). But the upstairs had everything still where it was when tje owners left. There were toys, clothes, expensive electronics, and the table was even set. It was like they just got up and left, without even taking anything. I can understand leaving furniture or a large TV, but why family photos, cellphones, or laptops?




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Off the top of my head Freaktography is one of the masters at time capsules and digging up history on his finds. Ground State and Wolfheart also have a knack for finding for lack of a better term, "walk-aways."

There's not a lot out this way, but we stumbled upon one that had that weird combination of open-to-the-elements doors and roof holes, allowing any wild animal to pass through, plus change still scattered about the dresser and dishes in the sink. It would be an antiquers dream but the outside was infiltrating the beauty left behind.

The setup painted a picture of a old man who lost his wife so had given away his bed, preferring to sleep alone in his lazyboy until it was his turn. Her items were still in the house but his messiness had taken over in the end. One room was haphazardly turned into his reloading room, with casing scattered about.

There were boxes of letters from a son overseas during the 40's, photos, slides, etc.

The mail always helps with the research later. It turns out the boy in the boxes was the man in the chair. His parents had died, he took over the place with his bride, she had indeed went first, then him shortly after. The land had been sold instead of the house. It was purchased for farming and no one had need or want for the contents inside.

I've returned a few times to see random things disappear. There's two beehives there now. The elk that seemed to take up most of the living room is gone. The old piano is sagging. The big beautiful freezer box/china display hutch is still buried in a room under old keepsakes and animal poop.

It was spooky the first time, feeling like you were inside someone somehow trying not to wake them. No matter how thick the dust and mold, it still felt like they could return any minute.

Here's some photos from further and further back





Really killer locations and excellent shots here!!

I agree 100% with the feeling of being in a abandoned house. I feel the same way every time I go in one. It's unlike the feeling I get from any other abandoned building.








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Thanks for directing me to that one. Those pics were amazing....



Keep an eye on the Ontario regional board, a lot of the good time capsule houses pop up there.




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