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Title: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on May 31, 2009, 04:47:21 PM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Creature Features on May 31, 2009, 06:36:36 PM
Yeah, sometimes for work i have to pass through the town of Eufaula, Alabama  and there's a real spooky old southern-style abandoned house right off the road. I keep meaning to stop and take a picture someday, lol...
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Paul L on May 31, 2009, 07:57:04 PM
These are beautiful.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on May 31, 2009, 11:28:46 PM
Howdja like the eyes in the first pic?
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: CreepysFan on June 01, 2009, 12:25:55 AM
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I love creepy deserted old houses as well. This one is in North Carolina.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 12:51:20 AM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 12:53:56 AM
Quote from: CreepysFan on June 01, 2009, 12:25:55 AM
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I love creepy deserted old houses as well. This one is in North Carolina.
That is awesome looking, cant believe no one wants to live there, must be haunted
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: CreepysFan on June 01, 2009, 12:59:12 AM
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 12:51:20 AM

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Must be time for my medication, I could swear I see FJA looking out the window. Love these creepy houses.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 01:27:40 AM
I didnt notice that before, wonder if it's someone or a trick of the eye, shadows, broken glass, light,etc.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Paul L on June 01, 2009, 11:26:26 AM
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on May 31, 2009, 11:28:46 PM
Howdja like the eyes in the first pic?
I can't see any eyes in the 1st pic, but I can be a slow study. Give me a hint?

There's an old country church in rual IL, 2+ hours from me, sits across from an old cemetary. If you look dead-on at the steeple/doorway, the doorway & windows form a face. Very effective, sorry I don't own a camera. CreepysFan photos rock too!
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 03:41:31 PM
Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on June 01, 2009, 11:26:26 AM
I can't see any eyes in the 1st pic, but I can be a slow study. Give me a hint?
There's an old country church in rual IL, 2+ hours from me, sits across from an old cemetary. If you look dead-on at the steeple/doorway, the doorway & windows form a face. Very effective, sorry I don't own a camera. CreepysFan photos rock too!
On the first pic, the two windows form what look like eyes, as the roof of the house is the head.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: CreepysFan on June 01, 2009, 04:18:29 PM
Here is an old abandoned house about 5 blocks away, complete with a small unkept cemetery in the back (only about 8 to 10 headstones, probably a forgotten family plot).  I took these this afternoon.
     
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 05:27:17 PM
Yeah, I love old cemeteries too, I'm gonna have to log off here in a little while, got some heavy thunderstorms moving in.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 07:02:08 PM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: BaronLatos35 on June 01, 2009, 08:04:36 PM
Great pics people, love this stuff, especially old graveyards and the covered bridges ring out Sleepy Hollow! Thanks for posting, really enjoy this thread.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: avenger on June 01, 2009, 09:13:07 PM
Teufel,
    The covered bridge reminds me of the scene in Silver Bullet where the kid in the custom wheel chair gets chased by the Reverend/Werewolf.Great photo !
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 11:07:46 PM
"What else would I use a silver bullet for?"
"How about to kill a Werewolf."
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 11:35:54 PM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 01, 2009, 11:37:42 PM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 02, 2009, 12:16:47 AM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Street Worm on June 05, 2009, 06:05:20 AM
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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Jscareshock on June 05, 2009, 09:48:47 AM
Awesome pictures especially of the tree Ents.  Many of our old houses have long since fell to make room for housing developments.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: CreepysFan on June 05, 2009, 11:44:24 AM
 True, which is really sad.  A lot of the old Victorian houses really had beautiful and unique architecture, and would be fantastic  looking if repaired.  Today's houses just don't have the style of some of these older houses of by-gone era's. 
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Fester on June 05, 2009, 02:02:28 PM
Quote from: CreepysFan on June 05, 2009, 11:44:24 AM
True, which is really sad.  A lot of the old Victorian houses really had beautiful and unique architecture, and would be fantastic  looking if repaired.  Today's houses just don't have the style of some of these older houses of by-gone era's. 

I agree. There is something truly sad every time a magnificent American Gothic house is torn down to make room for some crackerbox housing development.  Or worse.  Locally a few wonderful farm houses and outbuildings were demolished, and in their place, the  developers "built"-and I use that term loosely-- McMansions pattered after Thomas Kincaid cottages.   Thats right: real charm destroyed for faux style.

Even worse--many of these lost houses contain many easily salvaged components that could have been used elsewhere.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Wicked Lester on June 05, 2009, 06:16:40 PM
Quote from: Fester on June 05, 2009, 02:02:28 PM
I agree. There is something truly sad every time a magnificent American Gothic house is torn down to make room for some crackerbox housing development.  Or worse.  Locally a few wonderful farm houses and outbuildings were demolished, and in their place, the  developers "built"-and I use that term loosely-- McMansions pattered after Thomas Kincaid cottages.   Thats right: real charm destroyed for faux style.

Even worse--many of these lost houses contain many easily salvaged components that could have been used elsewhere.


I totally agree. My wife and LOVE the Victorian style houses inside and out. Especially if they have the cool color combos like yellows purples magenta etc. If we had the means I would certainly move away from the rat race and live in one in a small town. Back in 90' I lived for a short time in an 1898 semi Victorian with the loong winding stair case ,trap door to the creepy basement and stained glass front door. It was in Marinette WI. I paid $23,500 because it was a TLC type fixer upper and my mortgage and taxes were $20 less than my SUV payment. The downside is that jobs that paid much over minimum wage were HTF. So after 18 mos back to the Chicago area. :'( I wish I was still up there.

Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Scatter on June 06, 2009, 12:13:25 AM
Quote from: CreepysFan on June 05, 2009, 11:44:24 AM
True, which is really sad.  A lot of the old Victorian houses really had beautiful and unique architecture, and would be fantastic  looking if repaired.  Today's houses just don't have the style of some of these older houses of by-gone era's. 

Agreed buddy.......my house is only 6 years old. All the modern conveniences. Blahhhhhhhhhhhh. My dream is to get the hell out of Florida and back to where there are SEASONS, and buy an OLD Victorian for Nancy and I. She loves the old slightly c reepy houses too.
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: The Creeper on June 06, 2009, 12:01:26 PM
This is a cool thread!  All the spooky houses, trees, and graveyards are cool looking!
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Sir Masksalot on February 16, 2022, 03:37:44 PM
Quote from: The Creeper on June 06, 2009, 12:01:26 PM
cool thread!  All the spooky houses, trees, and graveyards are cool looking!

I couldn't agree more, only wish all of the images were still here.  :(

Many years ago I got lost while driving in the eastern U.S. and ended up in the wrong state.
Retracing my route through the backwoods of New Jersey, I came upon a most haunted-looking
abandoned house. There was no film left in my camera so I had to backtrack and buy an (expired)
roll from a general store I remembered passing several miles earlier. It was worth the hassle >

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/210/ookyhouse.png)

Off that same rural highway, the eeriest graveyard I'd ever seen came into view.  It looked to be
lost and forgotten to all time, with at least one headstone dating back to 1801 >

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/9/ruralroutegraveyardjp2.png)

Years later an artistic friend created a montage from cut-outs of the two sites, pasted onto a board.
It's in storage now but really needs to be framed and hung up in my monster room. I'll get to it ...

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Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Mike Scott on February 16, 2022, 06:34:12 PM
No way to better greet your guests than having a graveyard in your front yard!  :o
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Sir Masksalot on February 17, 2022, 12:52:57 PM
Quote from: Mike Scott on February 16, 2022, 06:34:12 PM
No way to better greet your guests than having a graveyard in your front yard!  :o

You'd want to live there if you could, don't even deny it!
Title: Re: I love spooky old houses
Post by: Mike Scott on February 17, 2022, 01:12:25 PM
Quote from: Sir Masksalot on February 17, 2022, 12:52:57 PM
You'd want to live there if you could, don't even deny it!

That was my guests who were shocked :o, not me.  ;D