The creepy house on the corner of the road

[CirclesYurt]

Has an inhabitant! I'm shocked. The garden was ridiculously over grown but has now been hacked down. I assumed it was an estate house and would eventually go on the market but tonight when I walked past there was the top of a head sat on the sofa. I nearly crapped myself. It is a scary looking house and I'm so surprised someone lives there. Weirdly, I'm looking forward to going back past tomorrow. I know I sound hideously nosy but I've been past this house every day for about 3 months and never seen anything until tonight.

Please tell me of other towns that have creepy houses that fascinate.

@TristantheTyrannosaurus

The door didn't have a lock. It was an internal bedroom door.

So if you turned the handle for the latch of whatever., it still opened?

@QueenPaw

This one. The house next door is immaculate and I always wonder about it

There was a similar house near my parents' home. The building had major structural issues due to subsidence and the owner's insurance didn't pay out. They couldn't afford the work and they couldn't afford to move out as it was unmortgageable and had very little value so they stayed. Over the years, they stopped doing maintenance rather than throwing good money after bad so the roof needed replacing, the paint was peeling, the windows rotting.

So if you turned the handle for the latch of whatever., it still opened?

Yes. We even found it funny and so tied twine to the latch and attached that to a nail sticking out of the door frame (that we had no put there, the house was rented so we were careful not to put holes in the walls and such). It be open and the twine hanging down.

We also went into the room through that damn window and stacked rocks in back of the door, which opened inward. Exited through window, shut window. Door would be open and the rocks all stacked.

Go ahead and try to debunk and make out like we're fools or idiots, passive aggressive sneer (nice try), you weren't there, and there's no explanation for some of the shit that happened in that house.

We thought it was funny and thought of all kinds of ways to keep that door shut.

Tristan

I hope you didn't think I was disbelieving or trying to debunk. I'm fascinated.

I was actually wondering if you saw the handle being turned.

The British Library had an exhibition which had Sarah Waters handwritten notes for the door scene in the Little Stranger, I was beside myself with glee!

I'm still friends with the landlords. They live in the house. It's an absolutely beautiful house and we were very happy there. But that back bedroom was creepy at night.

@QueenPaw

This place is amazing, I have photos from inside too. It should be really creepy but I've been so many times it's not. One of my favourite places weirdly!

That looks awesome! Are you an urban explorer?

There's a house like that near me, it looks so neglected and sad, I often wonder about the person living there, if they're unhappy and lonely, a little black dog sits at the gate for hours and I just want to pick it up and cuddle it.

@dexterslockedintheshedagain no, I do some pt modelling and there's shoots there where you can work with photographers to top up your portfolio

@TristantheTyrannosaurus

Door would be open and the rocks all stacked.

😱 Were the rocks stacked in a different way/place than you’d stacked them?

And was the door open by the time you’d exited the window and reentered the house? Did it happen straight away?

That is creepy as anything!

There’s some excellent urban exploration channels on YouTube.

[quote ThatOtherPoster]@TristantheTyrannosaurus

Door would be open and the rocks all stacked.

😱 Were the rocks stacked in a different way/place than you’d stacked them?

And was the door open by the time you’d exited the window and reentered the house? Did it happen straight away?

That is creepy as anything![/quote]
Yes. The door would be open and the rocks stacked against the wall to the right of the door (the door opened to the inside and to the left so when fully open it would be flush to the left hand wall of the bedroom).

We even put a small sofa in back of the door and went back out the window (life was a bit boring then, rural area, 3 small kids). The door was open and the sofa pushed to the side against the wall on the right.

This would happen when we were doing something else - out in the garden, in another part of the house (it is a large house), out on a walk, over night, in the living room.

To get an idea, the house was a 3 bed bungalow with a corridor in the middle. The master bedroom had originally been a second reception room. So let's say you were facing the front door: you'd see the corridor going from the front door to the back (where there was a full bathroom and a W/C next to it, I know, weird). The three bedrooms were all on the left of the corridor in a row. To the right was the living/dining area and the kitchen.

It sits on 1.5 acres, too. Stunning garden. Backs onto forest and across the road is the sea.

So after a while we'd just stop trying to close the door.

It's a beautiful house in a stunning setting with a creepy back bedroom .

This one near me. It's a semi and has been like that for at least thirty years! Such a waste. Fantastic panoramic sea views all from the side and back of the house too. The house adjoining is lovely as well although wouldn't have such brilliant views.

@lifeinlimbo2020

This one near me. It's a semi and has been like that for at least thirty years! Such a waste. Fantastic panoramic sea views all from the side and back of the house too. The house adjoining is lovely as well although wouldn't have such brilliant views.

Feel sorry for the house next door! I mean, it's good having basically a detached house, but dry rot can extend into their property, not to mention rodent issue.

Please tell me of other towns that have creepy houses that fascinate.

Apparently I live in it.

All my kids' friends say our house is 'creepy'. It's one of the oldest buildings in the village. Huge, heavy, stone-built walls with dark rooms, low, wooden ceilings, and rooms that lead one to another with two staircases - which means you can come up on people, who don't know the house, from unexpected angles by going up one set of stairs and coming down the other. The 'creepiness' is helped I guess by the fact we go to town at Hallowe'en with the whole of the house decorated and by the fact that I really don't give a shit what the neighbours think - not that any of them can see into my garden because it's well surrounded by stone walls and a healthy growth of trees. There's a rotting Land Rover in the totally unkept garden (lots of wildlife!) which we use to store stuff and a collection of huts and sheds fitted out to varying degrees of habitability which my kids and visitors live in from time to time.

My home.

A man with a history of dv lived in the creepy house on our road. Paint peeling, rags in windows, dodgy wrecks of cars in the driveway. I literally never walked past the house. Always crossed over until I heard he'd died and someone began tidying it up.

I'm not superstitious but I've just looked it up and it is number 13. Of course

@TheSandman

Please tell me of other towns that have creepy houses that fascinate.

Apparently I live in it.

All my kids' friends say our house is 'creepy'. It's one of the oldest buildings in the village. Huge, heavy, stone-built walls with dark rooms, low, wooden ceilings, and rooms that lead one to another with two staircases - which means you can come up on people, who don't know the house, from unexpected angles by going up one set of stairs and coming down the other. The 'creepiness' is helped I guess by the fact we go to town at Hallowe'en with the whole of the house decorated and by the fact that I really don't give a shit what the neighbours think - not that any of them can see into my garden because it's well surrounded by stone walls and a healthy growth of trees. There's a rotting Land Rover in the totally unkept garden (lots of wildlife!) which we use to store stuff and a collection of huts and sheds fitted out to varying degrees of habitability which my kids and visitors live in from time to time.

My home.

Sounds wonderful. A walled garden!

Do you by any chance have wonderful overhanging trees that make the entrance hard to find? I love those!

@TheSandman

Please tell me of other towns that have creepy houses that fascinate.

Apparently I live in it.

All my kids' friends say our house is 'creepy'. It's one of the oldest buildings in the village. Huge, heavy, stone-built walls with dark rooms, low, wooden ceilings, and rooms that lead one to another with two staircases - which means you can come up on people, who don't know the house, from unexpected angles by going up one set of stairs and coming down the other. The 'creepiness' is helped I guess by the fact we go to town at Hallowe'en with the whole of the house decorated and by the fact that I really don't give a shit what the neighbours think - not that any of them can see into my garden because it's well surrounded by stone walls and a healthy growth of trees. There's a rotting Land Rover in the totally unkept garden (lots of wildlife!) which we use to store stuff and a collection of huts and sheds fitted out to varying degrees of habitability which my kids and visitors live in from time to time.

My home.

Your home sounds wonderful!

Do you by any chance have wonderful overhanging trees that make the entrance hard to find? I love those!

Sadly no but I have had people who didn't listen to their satnavs closely enough driving into my garden in the mistaken idea that it's the side turning a bit further down - and then getting annoyed with me that it isn't.

@TheSandman

Do you by any chance have wonderful overhanging trees that make the entrance hard to find? I love those!

Sadly no but I have had people who didn't listen to their satnavs closely enough driving into my garden in the mistaken idea that it's the side turning a bit further down - and then getting annoyed with me that it isn't.

I get that the other way

They listen to sat navs and then realise the one way system by my block of flats is...what it is!

We have creepy corner house near us too. It's completely overgrown. Not helped by the fact the dog freaks out and drags me past it every time.

Our old neighbours house was one of these. A pretty bad state, internal leaks straight through.

We offered to buy it (at a VERY good price) as it was owned by an elderly lady who would visit it occasionally. She refused, just liked to visit as it was her mother's.

I even had someone from the council once trying to track her down as they saw it as abandoned property.

I often wonder what happened in the end as I'm not sure she had children. I assume a relative would have inherited it at some point.

There was a house near me which was all boarded up, garden totally overgrown, tumbledown wall at the back. I was walking past one day and this bloke appeared through the undergrowth, carrying a plastic bag! I saw him go back the same way a bit later, obviously having been to the shops.

Someone bought it a few years later and completely renovated it but apparently hedge man had defaulted on his mortgage and had been living there for years before the bank finally auctioned the house.

I sometimes wonder where he's gone.