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I spend a lot of time wandering around the hinterlands and I'm always intrigued by old houses and cabins in the middle of nowhere.


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Most of these are on private land. I know the story of some, but for the most part I know nothing about their history.

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Somewhere in southern New Mexico.

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This is the same house, different times of year. This one was demolished 7 or 8 years ago.
There's a big new business where this house used to sit.


There's a big new business where this house used to sit.
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Nice. Post more?
It's be good to see interiors.
Some of the Scottish islands have abandoned crofts that look as if somebody just walked away without taking anything with them.
It's be good to see interiors.
Some of the Scottish islands have abandoned crofts that look as if somebody just walked away without taking anything with them.
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Thanks. I was thinking about interiors too, but I don't have those kind of photos. Sorry.
Feel free to post your own abandoned house photos.
Feel free to post your own abandoned house photos.
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I know the guy that owns this one. Off the grid, it was abandoned about 20 years ago.
Pretty much a junk storage site now. You could probably break in and live for a year before anyone noticed.

Pretty much a junk storage site now. You could probably break in and live for a year before anyone noticed.
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This old cabin was in southern Arizona. I heard it has since collapsed.

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We used to see lots of same in Canada in the 60's, 70's & into the 80's-after WW2 there was a general migration to cities & towns and rural life as it had been largely disappeared-my Dad could recite the histories of countless abandoned houses where we used to hunt Grouse or pick berries in season their former families were people he grew up/went to school with.
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Here are a couple I had posted a few years back, from Dangriga, Belize. For some reason they fascinate me too.


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There were some beauties in the Vava'u archipelago down in Tonga-whole families who were fairly well off just pulling up sticks from big decent looking wood houses and never coming back-some amazing looking architecture fallen into ruin.
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I agree about a fascination with abandoned homes, although I have no pictures. With some I think it is such a shame that a really interesting old house had been allowed to deteriorate. Almost always they leave me feeling a bit sad wondering about the lives of the people who lived there and the broken hopes and dreams that the house represents. I guess it could be equally a happy story when the person struck it rich and moved to a better place, but that doesn't seem to fit somehow. Perhaps I just enjoy having morose thoughts.
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Some great photos here, peeps. nice work. I like looking at abandoned houses too. It doesn't;t make me melancholy like Stan, more just thoughtful. I try to picture what it was like to live in that house. Maybe I should take pics. These are cool.
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I'm with Stan. A couple of TR's pics of abandoned homes aren't that old of a structure.
Not sure why anyone would walk away from that unless something bad happened.
Not sure why anyone would walk away from that unless something bad happened.
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Here's one with some interesting choices of building materials...


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Nice additions from Steve and Polardude. I like the house covered in vines in Pennsylvania.
I was thinking that particularly regarding the large house with the green aluminum roof that I posted. That picture was taken the day before I posted this and it's what made me think about it. Some of them might have been an upgrade and a move, but others might have been death, hardship, or foreclosure.Nines wrote:Not sure why anyone would walk away from that unless something bad happened.
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Big barn and the smaller boarded up house to the right.

Another angle of the big barn showing how it's falling down. Since this photo was taken, it has completely collapsed.

Another angle of the big barn showing how it's falling down. Since this photo was taken, it has completely collapsed.
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This one is a real shame. It has been abandoned for at least 15 years, you can see it's boarded up.
Someone will eventually fix it up, but I've always wondered the story behind it. It's quite large and you hope it's not beyond repair.

Someone will eventually fix it up, but I've always wondered the story behind it. It's quite large and you hope it's not beyond repair.
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Yell,
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Benbecula,
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As one of the most primitive forms of the North Atlantic longhouse tradition it is very probable that the roots of the blackhouse, in which cattle and humans shared the same roof, is well over 1000 years old. The Lewis examples have clearly been modified to survive in the tough environment of the Outer Hebrides. Low rounded roofs, elaborately roped, were developed to resist the strong Atlantic winds and thick walls to provide insulation and to support the sideways forces of the short driftwood roof timbers





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Nice ones, DCComic. The interiors are a nice touch, I like the image with the stove and the couches. All the old beds in one room. What was once someone's living area is now filled with blue barrels and pallets.
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The picture with a stove in the middle has a drying rail on pulleys over it, with coat-hangers still there, curtains at the window and a picture frame to the left where the picture has collapsed out of it, presumably from getting damp.
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The community of Old Bettles. 8 miles down river from Bettles. It was mostly abandoned by the 1960s, but there was one guy living there by himself until the mid-90s.






































This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
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Hey S8, what is that thing hanging on the wall. At first I thought it was some type of animal trap, but I don't think so...


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I thought it was a snare.
This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
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section8 wrote:I thought it was a snare.
It's two different things the one with the circular metal around the handle is itself a handle for lifting off the burner lids that allow wood to be added to a stove-that's not a great description but that's what it is.
Something like this

The second thing hanging there I dunno.
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Yeah I was thinking snares also but not quite sure. Maybe that handle type thing with the coiled wire is a separate item.
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I think Bill's right.
This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
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I think there may be two animal snares wrapped up together. Looks like there is some kind of cable lock mechanisms on the cables, which would be consistent with snares.
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Japan is full of crumbling houses. The nation is depopulating and becoming a giang ghost town.
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These are all interesting photos. There are some I'd like to photograph, but I'm always passing by so quickly.
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Was out driving around again last week and stumbled on some more.



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This one I was able to look inside.



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Not sure what happened there...



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This one was creepy.





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More from last week. Eastern Oregon.







Probably 6 or 7 more I photographed but didn't upload.
Probably 6 or 7 more I photographed but didn't upload.
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You guys would like this: http://desertedplaces.blogspot.com/