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.

These houses just make me sad. I work with vulnerable people in the community and these houses nearly always belong to an older person or someone with serious mental health problems. Often they are on a low income and cant afford the repairs so the houses get worse. Many end up living in 1 room as its easier to stay warm. I will never forget one man I supported who was living in a house like this. When I went round the back there were no windows and doors and the man in his 70's was living in the back room sleeping on a camp bed which was basically outdoors with an outside loo. He hadnt been upstairs in years as the building was too dangerous. We helped him to move to sheltered housing and it turned out it wasnt a camp bed he was sleeping on but old milk crates and he said thank you for his hot running water when he moved - he was totally enamoured by it as he hadnt had it in so long

So sorry to be a kill joy but I dont think its fair to post pictures of these houses because in most cases there is someone living in poverty and / or mentally unwell there and that house is their life

@Cheeseandlobster

These houses just make me sad. I work with vulnerable people in the community and these houses nearly always belong to an older person or someone with serious mental health problems. Often they are on a low income and cant afford the repairs so the houses get worse. Many end up living in 1 room as its easier to stay warm. I will never forget one man I supported who was living in a house like this. When I went round the back there were no windows and doors and the man in his 70's was living in the back room sleeping on a camp bed which was basically outdoors with an outside loo. He hadnt been upstairs in years as the building was too dangerous. We helped him to move to sheltered housing and it turned out it wasnt a camp bed he was sleeping on but old milk crates and he said thank you for his hot running water when he moved - he was totally enamoured by it as he hadnt had it in so long

So sorry to be a kill joy but I dont think its fair to post pictures of these houses because in most cases there is someone living in poverty and / or mentally unwell there and that house is their life

Or not. BIL is on course to inherit just such a house. It's a semi and the house next door is own by a HA. He refuses to engage with anything and currently has MIL servicing his every need. He was always the golden child. Once she dies, though, we know how it will go. He'll do nowt and eventually, the HA will get involved as rodents and rot and whatnot extends into that property someone else has to live in. He'll do nowt in response to that, the property will be seized by the council, he's never been pressed to work so won't have money to pay for it or listen to anyone. They'll gain a lien on it, 'suicide' it and the back garden to get rid of the rodents and put it on the open market once that's done.

That property is worth about £250k even in a dire state due to its location and the size of the front and back gardens.

That would be a life-changing amount of money to SIL and DH, even divided among all 3.

But it will be for nowt.

We've long detached ourselves, bought our own place, but it weighs on SIL heavily. It's their family house. As a semi, too, someone else has to live next to those wrecks, worrying about wet and dry rot spreading into their property, rodents and other vermin, and they, too, might have MH issues or be low income themselves.

A house up the road from my old place. Completely overgrown at the front and back, render had fallen off the gable end. A chap in his 60s lived there; I'd see him on the bus from time to time when he went to do his shopping. Always well presented. It was rented from a housing association so I always wondered why nobody had helped him to sort it out.

@dubyalass

A house up the road from my old place. Completely overgrown at the front and back, render had fallen off the gable end. A chap in his 60s lived there; I'd see him on the bus from time to time when he went to do his shopping. Always well presented. It was rented from a housing association so I always wondered why nobody had helped him to sort it out.

Some people won't engage and no, not all of them have SEN or MH issues. Some won't. HA's are not charities, either, there may be a charge involved with helping someone sort it out. It's like people who refuse to have paid carers in. It's not always clear cut.

This is on the way into town, and has been overgrown for as long as I can remember. Some of the windows are broken, there are old cars just on the drive, and it always looks dark. But, there have been lights on so someone is in there. More recently the trees have been chopped down and someone was gardening in the front garden! I was shocked to see them.

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@Cheeseandlobster

These houses just make me sad. I work with vulnerable people in the community and these houses nearly always belong to an older person or someone with serious mental health problems. Often they are on a low income and cant afford the repairs so the houses get worse. Many end up living in 1 room as its easier to stay warm. I will never forget one man I supported who was living in a house like this. When I went round the back there were no windows and doors and the man in his 70's was living in the back room sleeping on a camp bed which was basically outdoors with an outside loo. He hadnt been upstairs in years as the building was too dangerous. We helped him to move to sheltered housing and it turned out it wasnt a camp bed he was sleeping on but old milk crates and he said thank you for his hot running water when he moved - he was totally enamoured by it as he hadnt had it in so long

So sorry to be a kill joy but I dont think its fair to post pictures of these houses because in most cases there is someone living in poverty and / or mentally unwell there and that house is their life

When my mum met my dad he was living in one room of a house, the one they still live in. He was renting it from the person he worked for. He wasn’t interested in it really and just lived in the kitchen and used the outside loo. He’d never been upstairs. In the other room downstairs had a flagstone floor with weeds growing through it.

I used to live just down the road from a creepy boarded up house that was basically left to rot after a couple were murdered there www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/440116/dundee-murder-house-to-be-auctioned-off/amp/. Very creepy place, but the mini bandstand and lemmings statue just round the corner are cute.

We have a Boo Radley house in our street. I feel sorry for the neighbours who share a party wall as the BR house is in a terrible state and deteriorating. Every now and then the couple that live in it put it on the market for an improbable sum, then quietly delist it a few months later. It needs tens of thousands spending on it to put it right. It is such a shame.

@TellingBone

Didn't everyone have a 'witch's house' nearby that everyone was frightened of playing near when they were growing up?

We certainly did. There were all sorts of tales about what she'd do to you if she looked out of the window and caught you looking. We also had a looming, unused, blackened stone roadside Victorian era church which was terrifying to walk past on dark nights.

I did. It was at the end of the road (maybe there's a pattern? ).

I live near some dilapidated offices that are quite creepy. Lots of smashed windows and some of them are trashed furniture whilst others look like they were abandoned just as they are, with the desks and workstations still set up. I decided to take a couple of photos of it recently, in particular a creepy item near a window. Only after taking the photos I spotted a woman through the same window who was obviously just working there. Clearly they're not actually abandoned, and the poor woman must have been quite spooked by me taking her photo through the window 😳

A few years back we moved into a semi detached house that we still live in now. The house joined onto it was very run down, over grown garden and trees making the house barely visible, old guttering and windows. We always used to hear knocking about next door and voices and someone whistling away so always assumed someone lived there. However after a few months we slowly got speaking to the neighbours opposite us and they told us that the house next to us had been empty for a good couple of years as the elderly man was in a care home. I’ve never had goosebumps like it when he told us that it’s all locked up and no one has entered it during that time.. the man later died and a family with young children have since moved in but I still find it to look very creepy.

I live on an estate backing on to a park ,there's a house next to the park which I assume was the park keepers house ,it's completely derelict now ,but it's such a shame as it could be a lovely house if somebody put some time and money into it Detached with a big garden probably about 150 years old .

There was a ramshackle, tumbledown farmhouse in a village near me, it once had a thatched roof but trees were actually growing through the building. It was presumably a listed building (most of that village is) but for many years (60+) it just stood sad and neglected.
Apparently it was because of a Will dispute so no one did a thing until the disputants died! It’s now rebuilt and looks lovely but what a sad situation.
Near my DS there’s a beautiful house that you could hardly see through the wilderness of a garden, it had trees growing out of the rood and a very narrow path to the front door. Apparently it was inhabited but goodness knows what the interior was like, part of the roof had fallen in, the bits of windows you could just see were broken.
It’s now been renovated (probably worth £1m +) which is lovely to see, but I would love to know why it fell into such disrepair.

I love seeing the photos of the creepy houses!

@AmazingBouncingFerret

There’s some excellent urban exploration channels on YouTube.

Yes there are. A couple of days after the documentary was broadcast on t.v. about 'The disappearance of Margaret Fleming' a couple of urban explorers went around the now derelict house where she lived. It wasn't especially creepy just abandoned but interesting nevertheless.

Her, 'carers' are in prison for her murder. Her body has not been found. The trial was fascinating. However, I digress.

Other urban explorers on YouTube go to an old nursing home and have a good look around the old mortuary. Some go and look around an old school. There's some good ones from American urban explorers too.

Sometimes an old disused building will have security. Part of which is a recorded message which is triggered when it senses someone within range. How creepy is that ? A disembodied voice near an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere politely informing you, 'You are trespassing. Please leave immediately.' However, some urban explorers go to great lengths to look around a building they know they shouldn't be nosing around.

Interesting though.