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I lived next to an abandoned house for years? The lady who lived in it was basically a recluse, and had all sorts of signs warning off salesmen and such. Her two poodles were very barky. At some point she just... Disappeared? She might have ended up in a home, who knows. At any rate, the house was empty (though still had some of her stuff in there... like it had been left halfway through moving out) and the ivy that had already mostly taken over the house grew up so much that it was probably the only thing holding the place together.




I went in there a few times... Someone had already broken the lock on the sliding door in the back (or maybe it was left unlocked? who knows) and had a poke around. The layers of dust on everything were so thick that it was hard to breathe and the ivy blocked out all light, even in the middle of the day. The house was the same layout as mine so they must have been built together. The laundry was completely inaccessible though? The door just wouldn't. I guess thats probably the earthquakes moving the house around and misaligning doorframes; it happened in our house too and my door had to be planed down at least 3 times so i didn't get trapped lmao




I actually really wish i'd taken the sad dog portrait



Anyway the actual creepy part: The room equivalent to mine had all these huge scratch marks in the walls at about waist and head height?



If i lighten the picture you can see that it goes through the wallpaper and put some nasty gouges into the wood :l



I don't remember what was in the master bedroom (i think there was still a double bed?) but the 3rd bedroom had a single bed still in there, inexplicably covered with old shells? Like someone has just dumped a bunch from the beach on there, they weren't arranged. The ivy had grown through the windows and walls in there too and had taken over most of the room.

It was a weird place.

What is your weirdest childhood memory?