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This Confederate Colonel’s House Was Left Behind With All Its Belongings Still Inside (26 Pics)
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This Confederate Colonel’s House Was Left Behind With All Its Belongings Still Inside (26 Pics)

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As an urban explorer it’s the kind of house you dream about. A house filled with so much history, every way you hold your camera a new story can be told. Look around inside the abandoned house of a Confederate civil war Colonel. From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around, as vines and nature creep in to take over.

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The 1853 Greek revival-style house

Virginia creeper vines overtaking the exterior

The antique decorated parlour is slowly peeling away

Taxidermy stag head in a bedroom

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A photograph of 19 members of a WWII combat battalion

A bedroom with Victorian armoire

Antique bureau with mirror and vintage militaria

Marble-topped east-lake washstand and dresser

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Tall mirror chair in the foyer

The master bedroom with portrait of the colonel

Elegant Victorian vanity dressing table

Various papers and pamphlets across a writing desk

The grand entrance hall staircase

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Old photographs and postcards

An attic of oddities

Mid century kitchen with appliances

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Vintage rotary phone hangs on the kitchen wall

The kitchen’s medicine cabinet

A glimpse into the crumbling dining room

Flowers and glassware scattered atop a dresser in a bedroom

In the attic old books and an antique pump organ

An antique trunk filled with old papers and letters

Vines growing up a bedroom wall

The English style basement

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The homes private graveyard

Generations of family members in the graveyard

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Rukmani Krishnan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have seen a lot of.posts abt such abandoned homes. It always intrigues me that people just left a huge part of their lives in those houses and went away, just like that, never to return! I wonder what caused such abrupt moves. Even here there are kettles in the kitchen, as if someone was just making thoer morning coffee.

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Eve L.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could understand, that if people die or get sick and have to move they leave their things behind. What I don’t get, is why nobody else cares for this stuff. Surely there must be family or friends, why don’t they do something about all this, partly really beautiful, belongings rotting away slowly. I experienced this myself. We once wanted to buy an older house, after the owner had died in hospital a year or so ago. The door was opened for us by a relative of this man, and it was just unsettling: the kitchen table was still set with breakfast board, knife, marmelade, coffee creamer… so this man had a heartattack, the ambulance was called and the door was just shut and never opened again until we came. What kind of person could he have been, that no one cared about his belongings? Still harrowing…

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spirit wolf
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My absolute dream is to buy a house of this sort and rummage through it for fun.

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B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We've just done exactly that - an old mill house in rural France. It actually looks a lot like the one in these pics (interior mostly). Rummaging is not so much fun though. We're just finding a lot of broken glass, roof tiles, moldy wallpaper and bat droppings. And after months of digging up bramble roots in the garden, the only treasure we've discovered are bits of wire and broken bottles. :/

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Missy Moo Moo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents bought a house in the 80s that was almost 100 years old and had just been "left". It was amazing to rummage through, I still clearly remember all the photos that had been left behind. There were letters, newspapers and clothes. Like a small box that was full of medical supplies from the war - I think she was a nurse. Dad restored the house from top to bottom and left things for others later to find, like 20c in the concrete surround of the oven with the penny he found

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Tovah Roche
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm genuinely surprised how much furniture remains in the house. And some of it's in mint condition. Heck, the beds still had linen on them. It's like the previous residents just up and left taking only their clothes. You would think people would have looted the "free" antiques by now.

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Gina Lehman Peebles
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is probably staged in a old home. If no one had tended to it for years it wouldn't look this good. Phone on the wall,console television......

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Steve
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lack of living people present doesn't automatically mean someone doesn't own it.

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ƒιѕн
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A view on how the foyer designs were kept pretty close on some of these homes, lower image is from Bryan Sansiveros earlier posting here. https://tinyurl.com/bored-panda comp-5ee86...a2cd3b.jpg comp-5ee86aca2cd3b.jpg

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Idontwantto
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many of these photos look staged. A lot of items positioned very conveniently and free of dust.

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ChickyChicky
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was thinking the same. Very artfully staged. The coat on the chair in the living room would be totally moth eaten and ragged by now.

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Tiny Dancer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love it! Some are obviously "staged" (too neat), but I'm used to that by now. So many treasures! I'd be out the door with that trunk, lol. I see the "vintage" phone (gotta be the '60s or '70s) is throwing some folks off. The house itself is from the 1800s, but the belongings are from various years as the family grew, that's what makes it such a cool find to me. From the opening text: "From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around ..."

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Norart norart
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the new term for one who goes into a private property uninvited to take pictures of a dead mans stuff is no longer "trespasser" but "urban explorer"?

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Geth
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You realize that some day whoever this property was left to will die, and the county, or some professional cleaners hired by whatever cousin inherits, will come in and dump everything in the garbage? You can't trespass against the dead. Don't be a snowflake.

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Sharon Crawford
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do u mfus have to pick everything apart!?!!! Ive never seen a bigger bunch of A** holes!!!! STFU!!!!!!!!

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Thomas Ewing
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first thing I'd look for in an abandoned property is the date of the last occupancy. A calendar or newspaper. I saw nothing in these photos newer than the 1980s, but nothing was mentioned. Hard to believe a place would sit untouched for almost 40 years. If this is a legitimate find and not staged as some have suggested more facts are needed.

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Donna Gettings Apperson
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is amazing to me that no one steals the items in houses like this. It's such a snapshot of an era.

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Merry Wehrle
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMGosh growing up we had the EXACT stove! So many lovely things just abandoned here. Sad, but yet hauntingly beautiful.

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Mshauri Mazuri
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My inner thrift girl want to rummage every pile and see what can be saved and be given to salvation army or just give to those who don't have enough.

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Meyer Weinstock
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given the mid-20th century stuff left behind, I presume that the place might have been ransacked by squatters over time. On why it was left as is, numerous things come to mind, as other posts herein have surmised. One other idea is this: the last resident was a WWII veteran, or spouse. The kids, baby boomers, might have taken off for their own lives and never returned (actually, a more common story than one might think). They may not have had grandchildren, and the children died before returning. When the local ambulance service took the last resident away for the hospital, or morgue, the place was left as-is, and no owner returned to reside. -Dr M, retired history professor

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Anne
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, only pictures (you also need permission to enter the property, being the US, you could be shot if you don't have permission, but I guess nobody cares about this home)

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Jm West
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those yellow flowers on dresser look real by all of the yellow petals etc. But they wouldn’t be yellow or any still standing if they were real. Seriously looks like they were only a few days old and they made a mess 🤔

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Mark Lancaster
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please do not publish the location of this house. There are people that will seek it out and burn it to the ground!

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sixdeadelves
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This house was obviously abandoned in the 40s. The title is very misleading.

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Marilyn Helling
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is beautiful furnishings in there that I would love to have. Just to bad it went to waste. Hope someone gets it that takes care of it

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Philly Bob Squires
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One could only wish some of these items could be taken restored and preserved for museum pieces.

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Laura Lawson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think these pictures are too 'staged' looking to be true. This house was obviously abandoned a long time ago & yet the flowers are still yellow? Close examination shows they are fake but still no dust & quite bright. And absolutely no dust on the pamphlets on the table? The table with the photos was dusty but the photos weren't. And they are just a bit too artfully scattered. The kitchen has peeling wallpaper & bright steel kettles. The yellow sofa in the 'parlour' is way too clean compared with the wallpaper that has peeled itself off the wall. And that sad photo of WWII pals? Closer inspection leads me to believe otherwise. They are holding a flag who's insignia doesn't fit with any other one, and not everyone is in uniform. The hat would have molded away far before now & that shiny shoe? It's a tap shoe. I've heard of people who stage photos in old buildings with their own props & I think that is what has happened here, which is sad because the house speaks better without them.

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Basil Ignatov
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So this is a "Confederate colonel"s house? No: 1) the confederate army disbanded in 1865 and the phone is a 1960s model 2) that ammo box is *not* from an era that used flint muskets confederate army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_forces_of_the_Confederate_States phone: https://www.loveproperty.com/galleries/95574/secrets-of-a-confederate-colonels-abandoned-dream-home?page=1 (picture 8)

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MN “MN Female” Female
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry....but the photo with the ammo box is photo shopped....and badly I might add. When I see something like that I loose respect for the photographer.

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Scratch
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So tired of these staged "OMG look what we found!" photos. Only a dullard would believe this s**t.

brysans avatar
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how the home was left. Please take your negativity somewhere else. If you don't care for these kinds of articles then don't read them.

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Brian Irby
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love urban explorations, but some of this stuff seems pre-arranged. That said, I wish I could go in that house and poke around!

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Sean Harrison
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting, but it's a shame none of these are real, they are all staged pics.

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Eddie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With today's political correctness and history revisionism, expect calls to burn it to the ground.

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Jo Bebe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of this had to be staged. There is no way that paper would still be as white as it is and without any time or dust on it.

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Joe Bloe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not quite sure why you would photoshop in an old ammo box

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Gaia
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just dont get how this "urban explorers" gets inside private properties without blinking much about....it does belong to someone, you dont have any right to invade a property just to expose the privacy of people that are not alive anymore in order to get "likes" for your work. See how bad ended the story of that abandoned mansion of the Russian magnate in UK...finally the Police was involved. A door is closed, and you are not invited in. Stay away.

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Jennifer Clayton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very staged. If the fresh flowers didn’t give it away the dust patterns do. If it really were untouched since the 60’s, nature would’ve fully taken over.

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Thomas Ewing
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The flowers didn't look very fresh, however, for a place not lived in for over 30 years (my guess), there were no missing windows, vandalism, graffito. The open cupboards etc. said the place had been visited before and the "look" possibly staged.

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John Smith
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3 years ago

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Confederate!?!?!? BURN IT DOWN NOW YOU RACIST BASTARD!!! Sincerely - The Dems And Their Minions

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Marcy Brown
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3 years ago

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I didn't know they had plastic phones in the 1860's. Oh wait.....they didn't.

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No but the house was still built during that time. Just like there were no smart phones in 1959 yet I'm holding one in a 1959 home.

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Mike Gouse
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3 years ago

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Given the current circumstances, I get the feeling that the contributes are trying to get people to target this house to burn it down.

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Radek Suski
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3 years ago

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The USA had to be very technologically advanced. They had TV, phones and electricity in the middle of XIX century

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Electric Ed
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean the CSA, surely? Or perhaps the colonel was just very, very long lived (seems he took part in WWII as well).

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CbusResident
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3 years ago

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A 'Confederate' Colonel?!!! BLM should burn this all to the ground!!

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Rukmani Krishnan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have seen a lot of.posts abt such abandoned homes. It always intrigues me that people just left a huge part of their lives in those houses and went away, just like that, never to return! I wonder what caused such abrupt moves. Even here there are kettles in the kitchen, as if someone was just making thoer morning coffee.

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Eve L.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could understand, that if people die or get sick and have to move they leave their things behind. What I don’t get, is why nobody else cares for this stuff. Surely there must be family or friends, why don’t they do something about all this, partly really beautiful, belongings rotting away slowly. I experienced this myself. We once wanted to buy an older house, after the owner had died in hospital a year or so ago. The door was opened for us by a relative of this man, and it was just unsettling: the kitchen table was still set with breakfast board, knife, marmelade, coffee creamer… so this man had a heartattack, the ambulance was called and the door was just shut and never opened again until we came. What kind of person could he have been, that no one cared about his belongings? Still harrowing…

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spirit wolf
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My absolute dream is to buy a house of this sort and rummage through it for fun.

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B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We've just done exactly that - an old mill house in rural France. It actually looks a lot like the one in these pics (interior mostly). Rummaging is not so much fun though. We're just finding a lot of broken glass, roof tiles, moldy wallpaper and bat droppings. And after months of digging up bramble roots in the garden, the only treasure we've discovered are bits of wire and broken bottles. :/

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Missy Moo Moo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents bought a house in the 80s that was almost 100 years old and had just been "left". It was amazing to rummage through, I still clearly remember all the photos that had been left behind. There were letters, newspapers and clothes. Like a small box that was full of medical supplies from the war - I think she was a nurse. Dad restored the house from top to bottom and left things for others later to find, like 20c in the concrete surround of the oven with the penny he found

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Tovah Roche
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm genuinely surprised how much furniture remains in the house. And some of it's in mint condition. Heck, the beds still had linen on them. It's like the previous residents just up and left taking only their clothes. You would think people would have looted the "free" antiques by now.

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Gina Lehman Peebles
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is probably staged in a old home. If no one had tended to it for years it wouldn't look this good. Phone on the wall,console television......

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Steve
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lack of living people present doesn't automatically mean someone doesn't own it.

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ƒιѕн
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A view on how the foyer designs were kept pretty close on some of these homes, lower image is from Bryan Sansiveros earlier posting here. https://tinyurl.com/bored-panda comp-5ee86...a2cd3b.jpg comp-5ee86aca2cd3b.jpg

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Idontwantto
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many of these photos look staged. A lot of items positioned very conveniently and free of dust.

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ChickyChicky
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was thinking the same. Very artfully staged. The coat on the chair in the living room would be totally moth eaten and ragged by now.

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Tiny Dancer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love it! Some are obviously "staged" (too neat), but I'm used to that by now. So many treasures! I'd be out the door with that trunk, lol. I see the "vintage" phone (gotta be the '60s or '70s) is throwing some folks off. The house itself is from the 1800s, but the belongings are from various years as the family grew, that's what makes it such a cool find to me. From the opening text: "From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around ..."

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Norart norart
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the new term for one who goes into a private property uninvited to take pictures of a dead mans stuff is no longer "trespasser" but "urban explorer"?

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Geth
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You realize that some day whoever this property was left to will die, and the county, or some professional cleaners hired by whatever cousin inherits, will come in and dump everything in the garbage? You can't trespass against the dead. Don't be a snowflake.

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Sharon Crawford
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do u mfus have to pick everything apart!?!!! Ive never seen a bigger bunch of A** holes!!!! STFU!!!!!!!!

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Thomas Ewing
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first thing I'd look for in an abandoned property is the date of the last occupancy. A calendar or newspaper. I saw nothing in these photos newer than the 1980s, but nothing was mentioned. Hard to believe a place would sit untouched for almost 40 years. If this is a legitimate find and not staged as some have suggested more facts are needed.

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Donna Gettings Apperson
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is amazing to me that no one steals the items in houses like this. It's such a snapshot of an era.

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Merry Wehrle
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMGosh growing up we had the EXACT stove! So many lovely things just abandoned here. Sad, but yet hauntingly beautiful.

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Mshauri Mazuri
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My inner thrift girl want to rummage every pile and see what can be saved and be given to salvation army or just give to those who don't have enough.

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Meyer Weinstock
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given the mid-20th century stuff left behind, I presume that the place might have been ransacked by squatters over time. On why it was left as is, numerous things come to mind, as other posts herein have surmised. One other idea is this: the last resident was a WWII veteran, or spouse. The kids, baby boomers, might have taken off for their own lives and never returned (actually, a more common story than one might think). They may not have had grandchildren, and the children died before returning. When the local ambulance service took the last resident away for the hospital, or morgue, the place was left as-is, and no owner returned to reside. -Dr M, retired history professor

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Anne
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, only pictures (you also need permission to enter the property, being the US, you could be shot if you don't have permission, but I guess nobody cares about this home)

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Jm West
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those yellow flowers on dresser look real by all of the yellow petals etc. But they wouldn’t be yellow or any still standing if they were real. Seriously looks like they were only a few days old and they made a mess 🤔

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Mark Lancaster
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please do not publish the location of this house. There are people that will seek it out and burn it to the ground!

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sixdeadelves
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This house was obviously abandoned in the 40s. The title is very misleading.

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Marilyn Helling
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is beautiful furnishings in there that I would love to have. Just to bad it went to waste. Hope someone gets it that takes care of it

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Philly Bob Squires
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One could only wish some of these items could be taken restored and preserved for museum pieces.

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Laura Lawson
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think these pictures are too 'staged' looking to be true. This house was obviously abandoned a long time ago & yet the flowers are still yellow? Close examination shows they are fake but still no dust & quite bright. And absolutely no dust on the pamphlets on the table? The table with the photos was dusty but the photos weren't. And they are just a bit too artfully scattered. The kitchen has peeling wallpaper & bright steel kettles. The yellow sofa in the 'parlour' is way too clean compared with the wallpaper that has peeled itself off the wall. And that sad photo of WWII pals? Closer inspection leads me to believe otherwise. They are holding a flag who's insignia doesn't fit with any other one, and not everyone is in uniform. The hat would have molded away far before now & that shiny shoe? It's a tap shoe. I've heard of people who stage photos in old buildings with their own props & I think that is what has happened here, which is sad because the house speaks better without them.

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Basil Ignatov
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So this is a "Confederate colonel"s house? No: 1) the confederate army disbanded in 1865 and the phone is a 1960s model 2) that ammo box is *not* from an era that used flint muskets confederate army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_forces_of_the_Confederate_States phone: https://www.loveproperty.com/galleries/95574/secrets-of-a-confederate-colonels-abandoned-dream-home?page=1 (picture 8)

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MN “MN Female” Female
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry....but the photo with the ammo box is photo shopped....and badly I might add. When I see something like that I loose respect for the photographer.

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Scratch
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So tired of these staged "OMG look what we found!" photos. Only a dullard would believe this s**t.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how the home was left. Please take your negativity somewhere else. If you don't care for these kinds of articles then don't read them.

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Brian Irby
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love urban explorations, but some of this stuff seems pre-arranged. That said, I wish I could go in that house and poke around!

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Sean Harrison
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting, but it's a shame none of these are real, they are all staged pics.

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Eddie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With today's political correctness and history revisionism, expect calls to burn it to the ground.

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Jo Bebe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of this had to be staged. There is no way that paper would still be as white as it is and without any time or dust on it.

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Joe Bloe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not quite sure why you would photoshop in an old ammo box

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Gaia
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just dont get how this "urban explorers" gets inside private properties without blinking much about....it does belong to someone, you dont have any right to invade a property just to expose the privacy of people that are not alive anymore in order to get "likes" for your work. See how bad ended the story of that abandoned mansion of the Russian magnate in UK...finally the Police was involved. A door is closed, and you are not invited in. Stay away.

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Jennifer Clayton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very staged. If the fresh flowers didn’t give it away the dust patterns do. If it really were untouched since the 60’s, nature would’ve fully taken over.

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Thomas Ewing
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The flowers didn't look very fresh, however, for a place not lived in for over 30 years (my guess), there were no missing windows, vandalism, graffito. The open cupboards etc. said the place had been visited before and the "look" possibly staged.

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John Smith
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3 years ago

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Confederate!?!?!? BURN IT DOWN NOW YOU RACIST BASTARD!!! Sincerely - The Dems And Their Minions

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Marcy Brown
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3 years ago

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I didn't know they had plastic phones in the 1860's. Oh wait.....they didn't.

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No but the house was still built during that time. Just like there were no smart phones in 1959 yet I'm holding one in a 1959 home.

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Mike Gouse
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3 years ago

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Given the current circumstances, I get the feeling that the contributes are trying to get people to target this house to burn it down.

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Radek Suski
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3 years ago

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The USA had to be very technologically advanced. They had TV, phones and electricity in the middle of XIX century

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Electric Ed
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean the CSA, surely? Or perhaps the colonel was just very, very long lived (seems he took part in WWII as well).

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CbusResident
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3 years ago

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A 'Confederate' Colonel?!!! BLM should burn this all to the ground!!

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