RE: Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Monkey House
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Everything about this post reminds me of an old house in my hometown that I used to explore (back in the '80's). The owner seemed like he had been a bit of a hoarder, had similar taste in wallpaper/trinkets/stuff and there was a wheelchair that we used to zip around on while investigating.
We figured it had been abandoned for at least a decade. The floor boards were creaky and there was obvious water damage from an unmet roof.
At one point, I saw a picture of the house from the 60's. The lawn was immaculate, him and his wife were proudly standing out front with a shiny car in the driveway. It always amazed me how quickly nature took back the land that they had been living on.
Ah, the before and after photographs. They are always great to compare. Nature does not take long to get back its control.
When I was a kid, I also got into an abandoned house. It was untouched, and as bad as I was when young, I left it in the same state.
Eventually, I found the back-story. The wife had got cancer and in a couple of years had died. The husband was hit with massive depression. Lost his zest for life, wouldn't sell/donate his wife's belongings. Rarely left the house, except for the necessities.
At some point, he tripped and broke his hip - then was wheelchair bound until his final days.