My main exploring goal for last year was to find a untouched and unseen abandoned "time capsule house".
This house was originally spotted by a good friend of mine. A few weeks later we stopped by to see if there was a way in and if there was anything inside worth seeing. The first thing I saw when I walked through the open man door of the garage was a Ford Taurus, sitting with flat tires and several years of dust and bird poop on it. The inspection and registration had expired on 2012, but the plates were still on the car. As I walked through another door into the house itself I immediately knew this was going to be a epic find. If not for the insulation coming out of the water damaged ceiling in the kitchen I may have thought someone was still living here! A quick walk through two rooms was all I needed to see. This was place we had to come back to ASAP.
Three days later we got dropped off here and spent about a hour photographing and looking through the house. We found out that a old lady named Mabel lived here. Her husband, Fred, had passed away in the mid 2000s. Mabel lived here alone for around 10 years until she went to a nursing home in 2014. She has since passed away. Fred was definitely a hoarder. The basement was packed floor to ceiling, with only a few small walking paths. A den type room downstairs and both upstairs bedrooms were completely packed with stuff. Two of the rooms were not even accessible due to the amount of stuff stacked in them.
This left the kitchen, dinning room, living room and downstairs bedroom the only rooms really worth shooting.
But what rooms they were! Nearly everything was left behind in this house, clothes, kick knacks, furniture and appliances, even food in the pantry. Family photos still hung on the walls. There were no signs of family members or looters hunting around for valuables, a gun safe in the master bedroom was even still closed up and locked. Leading us to believe there may still be guns inside.
Places like these are what keep me going. Driving back roads and following up leads on possible abandoned houses. A house as untouched as this is very rare, maybe 1 in 100. But the only way to find places like this is to drive around, keep your eyes peeled and check on every abandoned house you see. Cuz you never know what might be inside those walls.
Time Stands Still
"When you love nips, it shows."
It's just the beast under your bed
In your closet in your head
Mabel's Cozy Chair
Cause all I need
Is the air I breathe and my friends and family
To believe in me
Nice Bass
Dinner & Laundry
Pickaxe Pete
Same pattern on the table same clock on the wall
Been one seat empty, eighteen years in all
You can free the world, you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight
Tchotchkes
Forever Christmas
Another Notch In My Belt
