Abandoned houses

When a house has been abandoned, Joyce Carol Oates writes, you can be sure there’s a sad story.

Exploring an abandoned 1900's Victorian Mansion. This abandoned Victorian Mansion sits looking very modest and almost like any other home from the outside.

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abandoned log cabin....This may have been someone's dream home once ...

When we call a place home, instead of a house, we’re ascribing a sort of positive emotion to it. But on the flip side, a windowless, empty house can evoke melancholy, sad, and even spooky emotions as our brains wonder why the people left in the first place. Mortgage costs are boring, it must be ghosts.

At the crossroads of memory and imagination, abandoned homes can comes back to life. You can practically smell the home-cooked meals, hear the faint murmur of bedtime stories, and taste the fare of dinner parties gone by.