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 jerm IX
    
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
 |  |  | Your saddest story
< on 8/27/2013 2:41 PM >
|  | | | Houses that tell stories that evoke emotional responses are my favourite aspect of exploring. I would love to hear the saddest story that you have ever uncovered while exploring abandoned houses. Please share.
Here is my sad story...
http://jermalism.b...house-on-hill.html
http://myabandonmentissues.blogspot.ca/ |
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WarBird69
   
Location: Eastern TN
Gender: Male
Atomic Bird of War
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 2 on 8/27/2013 10:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
Whenever I poop in a toilet in an abandoned building, I imagine that this is the last chance this toilet will ever get to be used for it's primary function. That my shit is THE last shit that it's ever going to catch, because no one shits in an abandoned toilet if there's poop already in it.
It's sort of a send-off to the toilets; they have played their role in life, and now they can rest. Sleep well, porcelain thrones.
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That is oddly poetic, in a sense.
When twilight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, when it seems that all you have left are the dead remnants of the fabric of your life:
-- BELIEVE |
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rob.i.am
 
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 3 on 8/28/2013 12:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
Whenever I poop in a toilet in an abandoned building, I imagine that this is the last chance this toilet will ever get to be used for it's primary function. That my shit is THE last shit that it's ever going to catch, because no one shits in an abandoned toilet if there's poop already in it.
It's sort of a send-off to the toilets; they have played their role in life, and now they can rest. Sleep well, porcelain thrones.
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This has inspired me to write a haiku:
Forgotten toilet
Purposeless and emptiness
One last poop
That IS a haiku, right?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
LifeInDecay. com
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 4 on 8/28/2013 12:50 AM >
| | | | Posted by rob.i.am
This has inspired me to write a haiku:
Forgotten toilet
Purposeless and emptiness
One last poop
That IS a haiku, right?
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It's 5, 7, 5 I believe:
Forgotten toilet
Purposeless and emptiness
Ends with one last poop.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide |
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
LifeInDecay. com
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 5 on 8/28/2013 12:53 AM >
| | | | PS, I do enjoy your write ups Jerm. You do spend a lot of time and effort on them and it shows.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide |
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 6 on 8/28/2013 1:12 AM >
| | | | Posted by CatAndTie
It's 5, 7, 5 I believe:
Forgotten toilet
Purposeless and emptiness
Ends with one last poop.
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Write my first haiku
I miscount the syllables
And fail miserably.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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sara'mer
Location: WNC
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 7 on 8/28/2013 1:15 AM >
| | | | Posted by CatAndTie
PS, I do enjoy your write ups Jerm. You do spend a lot of time and effort on them and it shows.
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I enjoyed this too, thanks for sharing.
I've never been able to track down that much information about houses, although I sometimes spin up little stories about places and the people who once lived there. The saddest things I've come across were letters and forms where a woman had (or tried to have?) her husband committed to the state mental hospital... but I couldn't find out any more than that. I haven't finished reading all the letters though, need to get back over there.
they call me the hyacinth girl |
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
LifeInDecay. com
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 8 on 8/28/2013 1:31 AM >
| | | | Posted by rob.i.am
Write my first haiku
I miscount the syllables
And fail miserably.
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Lol...
I hate to say it... but I think the word "miserably" only has 4 syllables. :o
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide |
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 9 on 8/28/2013 1:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by CatAndTie
Lol...
I hate to say it... but I think the word "miserably" only has 4 syllables. :o
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It has 3 but that makes five for the line. I actually checked it on a haiku site. Lol.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 10 on 8/28/2013 1:56 AM >
| | | | Posted by rob.i.am
This has inspired me to write a haiku:
Forgotten toilet
Purposeless and emptiness
One last poop
That IS a haiku, right?
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That was some good shit, Rob.
hi i like cars |
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burplekush
Location: where the buds are always flowering.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 11 on 8/28/2013 3:47 AM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
Whenever I poop in a toilet in an abandoned building, I imagine that this is the last chance this toilet will ever get to be used for it's primary function. That my shit is THE last shit that it's ever going to catch, because no one shits in an abandoned toilet if there's poop already in it.
It's sort of a send-off to the toilets; they have played their role in life, and now they can rest. Sleep well, porcelain thrones.
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When you see poop in an unusable toilet and think of this.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 12 on 8/28/2013 12:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by rob.i.am
Write my first haiku
I miscount the syllables
And fail miserably.
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Wow. That is sad.
Posted by CatAndTie
PS, I do enjoy your write ups Jerm. You do spend a lot of time and effort on them and it shows.
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Thanks 
http://myabandonmentissues.blogspot.ca/ |
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Jezabel Urbex
Location: Québec city
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 14 on 8/29/2013 2:12 PM >
| | | | Thank you for that story Jerm IX !
Why trying to fit in when you can stand out. |
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Dayman
Location: Oxford, Ohio/Middletown, Ohio
Gender: Male
"Too Much, Too Soon...You're way out of tune"
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 15 on 8/30/2013 3:47 AM >
| | | | Well for me, I was exploring this mansion tower thing recently and apparently teens used to party there after if was abandoned because of a fire and one kid fell to his death and by my guess based on my educated guess he fell from the side the large balcony's where on so he probably landed right where I happened to park. So I might of been parked on top of the spot a teenager landed as the fell to their death at a party....
The Artisan Pizza Blood Line
http://www.flickr....yathomedefenseman/ |
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CooperArt
Location: Lansing
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 17 on 8/31/2013 7:14 AM >
| | | | I think my saddest exploration is probably tied.
1: I saw this place when I was a kid. The woman who lived there had been taken to a home, and the place was boarded up and left there. There was still food on the table. she was in the middle of eating dinner.
My parents got to see the place as a realtor, and took me inside because I loved seeing all the houses.
2: http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
I never found the official story behind this, but the place tells a story all on its own. An elderly woman outliving her husband by at least several years, before dying or leaving. (There was a vague possibility of leaving, because there were photos of children on the piano.) There was vague evidence of squatters in and out of the place.
It had clearly been used for paintball once.
There were at least two restoration attempts, but both times, the house won out.
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 18 on 8/31/2013 3:49 PM >
| | | | Posted by EsseXploreR
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the dead hobo of DPS yet.
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That wasn't all that sad. He got the place sealed good for months. Just what you wanna find while you're carrying your cooler and grill to have a bbq on the roof.
I didn't see him but a buddy said his legs were all twisted up and his face was covered in greenhead flies. Looked like he fell or was pushed from the roof of the now-demolished half. His b-ball cap sat there for weeks before the wind took it. It was stuck to the pavement by whatever leaked out of him as he putrefied for a week in the 90 degree Philadelphia summer sun.
Good times!
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Your saddest story
<Reply # 19 on 8/31/2013 4:24 PM >
| | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
That wasn't all that sad. He got the place sealed good for months. Just what you wanna find while you're carrying your cooler and grill to have a bbq on the roof.
I didn't see him but a buddy said his legs were all twisted up and his face was covered in greenhead flies. Looked like he fell or was pushed from the roof of the now-demolished half. His b-ball cap sat there for weeks before the wind took it. It was stuck to the pavement by whatever leaked out of him as he putrefied for a week in the 90 degree Philadelphia summer sun.
Good times!
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Your empathy is overwhelming, I felt sadness reading it.
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