Posted on 01/26/2015 4:59:19 PM PST by lowbridge
With polished silverware still in the kitchen drawers and outdated toiletries sitting on a dusty dressing table, these incredible photographs show a perfectly preserved home that was abandoned by its owners decades ago.
From the retro patterned wallpaper to the well out-of-date food in the pantry, the dilapidated home in Ontario, Canada, is a remarkable time capsule.
An urban explorer called Dave made the stunning discovery while he was looking at abandoned properties in his home province - and documented his findings on his website Freaktography.
'The sight upon entering this house was eerie, breath-taking and weird,' he said. 'There is the usual smell of decay and years of abandonment that one comes to expect in this hobby.'
Dave found musical instruments, including a gramophone and a stereo system that would have been state-of-the-art at the time, books and family photographs - offering a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of the former occupants.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun."
"Shine on you crazy diamond."
According to “dave” on his facebook page:
It turns out that the home was willed to the church of the woman who lived there, and not to her daughter, causing some kind of legal battle. That would mean this home is in fact, not abandoned. Or does it?
Does any of this give anyone the right to enter it and photograph it....? No. However, had a handful of explorers not done such a thing, the treasures found in this house would have likely fallen into an even further state of decay.
The owner of a well known website contacted the elderly daughter and (much to the chagrin of many), the house has now been sealed and the valuable contents have been saved and boxed up. Had it not been for this group of “trespassers” this home and its contents would have been lost to time.
The weather cycle in this part of the world will tear a house down quickly. If you don’t take care of a house in this climate it will be in a state of collapse inside of 10 years.
I was talking to the owner of the empty house next to me this afternoon about the fact that I saw the drapes blowing around in the wind. I walked over and found a narrow gap by the windowframe so I called him and will go over there with some calk tomorrow and block the wind till he gets here in the spring.
Its been mostly empty for coming up on 15 years. He spent the summer of 2013 here but aside from having someone mow the grass a couple of times during the summer, nothin.
You almost get to the point where you pick up an envelope and you can tell how much is in it. In my case we found a shoebox under the bed, full.
I was nervous bringing it out to the car.
Why would someone place a cabinet in front of a door?Not sure. But I've seen enough horror flicks to know better than to open it.
The weather cycle in this part of the world will tear a house down quickly. If you don’t take care of a house in this climate it will be in a state of collapse inside of 10 years.
My thoughts as well.
That said, it seems that if the climate were cold AND dry, it may last longer.
Given the back story here, I can’t imagine someone showed up every few years to seal windows, fix the roof etc...
I wish there were photos of the outside of the home since most abandoned homes would be overrun by vegetation.
Cold and dry can preserve something a very long time like Robert Scott’s antarctic shack which is more than 100 years old.
http://theadventureblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/scotts-antarctic-hut-time-capsule.html
The photos of the Paris apartment that the woman left during the war and never came back to were amazing. Just such wonderful, careless style. The French has such je ne sais quoi!
looks like a place I used to walk by in the winter in FLint Michigan.... as a teenager
It does not appear that any varmints managed to squirm their way into the house. The fact that food packaged in cardboard containers was intact is remarkable.
Thanks!
It has a Princess Diana coffee mug which dates it to 1981 when someone lived there.
poltergeist.
That is one of the stranger comments I've seen on FR in a very long time...
Strange but true.
What is the time period of the computer monitor?
Bookmark for later reading.
Maybe but it’s in pretty good shape for a place not used (IMHO) since maybe the 60s or 70s.
maybe early 80’s. I think I saw a Princess Diana mug in one of the pictures
Yes, eerily romantic, perhaps.
But I went searching for the song you referred to — Sorry, old lady here, so I was not familiar — and it does not strike me as romantic. Depressing, IMO. But I suppose it is appropriate for those aging Pink Floyd faces that I saw on the YouTube vid.
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