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I Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In Norway
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I Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In Norway

I Captured The Eerie Beauty Of This Abandoned Mansion Above The Arctic CircleI Travelled To Northern Norway To Capture This Beautiful, Abandoned HouseI Photographed This Abandoned Mansion Above The Arctic CircleI Travelled To Northern Norway To Capture The Eerie Beauty Of This Abandoned MansionI Captured The Eerie Beauty Of This Abandoned Mansion In Norway's Arctic CircleI Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In NorwayI Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In NorwayI Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In NorwayI Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In NorwayI Photographed This Eerie Abandoned Mansion In Norway
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This abandoned house is located at the tip of an island in northern Norway, close to the ice-cold Norwegian Sea and with tall mountains surrounding it. During the summer, the midnight sun makes the night as bright as the day. In the winter, the polar night makes everything equally dark and gloomy. This is the land of the aurora borealis, and people used to believe it was dangerous to wave at the northern lights because it could come and take you away.

In these harsh surroundings, a house was built here by a man called Sedrup and in 1908, the big build was finished. The house was complete with 3 floors and 28 rooms and had its own servants’ quarters above the kitchen.

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The now-abandoned house was built with an impressive front facing the ocean. When the house was built, the fishing village was only accessible by sea

Among the maids that Sedrup hired to help around the house was a girl named Petra. She arrived in the early 1920s and soon after, fell in love with one of Sedrup’s sons, Leidulf. Eventually, Petra and Leidulf married and started their own family of five children. Life in the tiny fishing village was difficult, but the family was very social and caring—and they always had a spare room for when the doctor, the dentist, or the priest visited the village. The patients usually had to wait on a bench in the hallway, but on cold winter days, Petra always ushered them into one of the stove-heated bedrooms.

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The main entrance is on the side of the house

The back of the house, with the servants’ entrance and servants’ quarters

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Details from the main entrance

In the 1980s, Leidulf passed away and Petra was alone in the house, but she was never lonely as she often had visitors over for coffee and cake.

In the mid-1990s, Petra passed away and the house fell silent for the first time. A house that to this day still carries her legacy—it is still known in the local community as “Petra’s house.”

From the dining room, abandoned for 27 years

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Details from the dining room

Portrait of Petra and Leidulf hanging above the piano

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The drawing room with custom-made furniture

This sofa was made by a local master carpenter

One stove in every room of the house. This room was only used for special occasions and the stove was rarely lit

The upstairs bedroom where the doctor used to see his patients when he visited the village

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Details from the doctor’s room

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The main bedroom

A loom was found in a room on the top floor

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Britt M.

Britt M.

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Britt Marie Bye is a photographer based in Harstad/Oslo, Norway. Her work is rooted in the nostalgic and melancholic feelings of detachment and a distance from the present. The theme of abandonment is strong in Britt’s photographic storytelling. Whether through photos of lonely desolate houses, or as staged tableaus in forsaken homes.

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Britt M.

Britt M.

Author, Community member

Britt Marie Bye is a photographer based in Harstad/Oslo, Norway. Her work is rooted in the nostalgic and melancholic feelings of detachment and a distance from the present. The theme of abandonment is strong in Britt’s photographic storytelling. Whether through photos of lonely desolate houses, or as staged tableaus in forsaken homes.

Aelita Senvaitytė

Aelita Senvaitytė

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My name is Aelita and I have been an Editor for Bored Panda since 2019. I spend my days working with my amazing team and making articles the best they can be. Fantasy and magic have always ruled over my world, from movies to TV shows, to Video Games to tabletop games like Dungeos and Dragons, I try to find magic in every part of my life. Writing is a big part of me too, I hope to publish a fantasy novel one day. I also enjoy playing guitar and singing, as music always help me to get in a great mood. I have an adorable German Shepherd named Hela and we get into all kinds of adventures together.

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Aelita Senvaitytė

Aelita Senvaitytė

Moderator, BoredPanda staff

My name is Aelita and I have been an Editor for Bored Panda since 2019. I spend my days working with my amazing team and making articles the best they can be. Fantasy and magic have always ruled over my world, from movies to TV shows, to Video Games to tabletop games like Dungeos and Dragons, I try to find magic in every part of my life. Writing is a big part of me too, I hope to publish a fantasy novel one day. I also enjoy playing guitar and singing, as music always help me to get in a great mood. I have an adorable German Shepherd named Hela and we get into all kinds of adventures together.

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

It's a bit sad to see such a beautiful building just wasting away.

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

Is this supposed to be creepy? Seems to be a very nice, light house with a lovely interior. Has withstood the time very well. I would live in it after some renovation work.

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

I agree! The house is definitely not creepy at all. I've spent hours there and it's actually one of the nicest abandoned houses I've been to. (the eerie part in the article is a rewrite from BoredPanda-crew)

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

It's a bit sad to see such a beautiful building just wasting away.

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

Is this supposed to be creepy? Seems to be a very nice, light house with a lovely interior. Has withstood the time very well. I would live in it after some renovation work.

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

I agree! The house is definitely not creepy at all. I've spent hours there and it's actually one of the nicest abandoned houses I've been to. (the eerie part in the article is a rewrite from BoredPanda-crew)

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