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Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < on 6/5/2018 8:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
This Is Why I Do This....
About one year ago my exploring partner and I approached this house, we were uneasy right off the bat after seeing some trees that had been freshly cut and trimmed along the long driveway.
We approach what looks like an abandoned house, looking in the windows we are certain of it, it looks like it may be a time capsule inside.
But it's all locked up, so we walk away and don't return.
Fast Forward a year later and I have this house on my mind, wondering if the gods of abandonment have made this house accessible. I take a drive and bring my gear...hoping for better luck.
I park my car well off site and wait for the perfect time to make my dash up the driveway. I get to the house and everything seems exactly the same, except one thing....now there is a way inside.
Approaching a home that you have no info on and no way of knowing if other explorers have been inside is a unique experience. Your senses are on fire, because what if it's NOT abandoned, what if someone checks on it regularly?
I make my way inside and the first sense is smell - this house smells abandoned, then sound - I call out, I listen....silence.
Next - Sight - WOW, this is a true time capsule house. Everything in its place EVERYTHING. I have never seen pictures from inside so I have no idea what I am about to see...so I walk in and step gently, walking room to room with my jaw on the floor.
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Re: Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < Reply # 1 on 6/5/2018 8:39 PM > | Reply with Quote
What an awesome find, congrats.
"Approaching a home that you have no info on and no way of knowing if other explorers have been inside is a unique experience. Your senses are on fire, because what if it's NOT abandoned, what if someone checks on it regularly?"
This resonated with me and I know the feeling all too well. The buzz is unreal.
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Re: Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < Reply # 2 on 6/5/2018 9:05 PM > | Reply with Quote
I'm not big on houses, but damn that is a time capsule and... a life completely done and forgotten. Excellent find
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Re: Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < Reply # 6 on 6/6/2018 2:26 PM > | Reply with Quote
Outstanding work, seeing finds like this is really what makes this hobby great. Did you get any indication of what happened to the former owners to make them leave it to rot like this?
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Re: Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < Reply # 15 on 6/15/2018 2:06 PM > | Reply with Quote
These locations are awesome and sad. I wish there were more stories as to the circumstances that led literally entire lives left behind. I am pretty confident they aren't happy tales, but I really want to hear them, none the less....
Give abandonment a reason for its sacrificial reclamation to nature. Love it. Remember it. Take a picture. Share it. Leave the decay to nature.
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Re: Time Capsule - Everything Left Behind < Reply # 16 on 6/15/2018 2:37 PM > | Reply with Quote
Incredible set. These are the sort of places you stumble upon once every 1000 locations. The old family pictures always get me. It's so beautifully haunting to stare into the face of the people who used to live there.
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