Forgotten Village Exploration

>>17155038
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The mother not being able to handle the pressure of taking care of the kids on her own, and with them already eaten their entire winter supply of food, the mom snapped. She drug her children about a quater mile back into the woods and threw them into the village well, sealing it off.

she then walked back to the house, realizing what she done, hung herself. When the father got back to the house, he seen what had happend to his family, and took his own life a few days later.

I thanked the old couple for their time and walked back up to the house, this time more interested in looking around. I took more pictures, and found that the only way into the house is a small hole in the foundation on the side. The door was locked but rotted, making it easy to kick down. I didn't try because the house was so old and rotten that I was afraid that I'd knock the whole damn house down.

They also have a family cemitary further back into the woods i found, and took pictures of those to.

I'm gonna post the pics following up this post, mainly because i have the photos on my phone and didn't feel like typing the whole thing out on a touchscreen.


I'm heading back tomorrow with a friend and better gear, hoping I can get into the house this time.

I have to go to work now, I'll post all my pictures when I get back. please keep the thread bumped until then.

Still bumpin'

Bumping, hurry up OP

>>17155038
If he's working an eight hour shift he still has five hours left in his shift.

>>17155498
Just dinner shift, I'm almost off

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Starting my image dump.

Here's when I first got there, before I found out the history of the place

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Here's a side door to the place, as you can see I couldn't get in because of the massive amounts of wood and metal.

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Around back, we have shed No. 1

Interesting so far.

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Nothing really interesting in shed No. 1, except a nailboard and a few cans filled with some foul smelling liquid

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And on to shed No. 2

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I didn't pay much attention to what was in the shed the first time, I did find this rake, which questioned how old the place really was, considering this rake is fucking old as shit. After this I walked to the old couples cottage and learned about the places history.

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After coming back to the shed, I noticed all these empty jars, at first I just thought moonshine but then remembered that the mother and her children ran out of food during the duritation of the blizzard. This was where they we're storing their food

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>>17155991

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Walking around to the other side of the house, I finally see a way to get in, a hole in the foundation. I plan on using this to get inside the house tomorrow

by now I'm curious on what was in the woods behind the house, I was hoping to find the well that the couple mentioned in their story

I didn't find the well, but I did find their family cemetery

Awesome story and pictures look forward to hearing more on this.

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>>17156024
Most of the graves dated back to the 1800's. Some more recent, like in 1903

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>>17156037
Some destroyed over time

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>>17156046
Only the birthdate on this one, no name, no death day, just forgotten memories

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I'm gonna go back tomorrow and try to get Into the house

I'll be lurking if anyone needs any questions answered.

>>17156124
Why would you crawl in a hole in the foundation and not just bust down the door?

>>17155991
That...is creepy.

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Getting a weird vibe from that shed OP. Looks like something is waiting for you to come in

>>17156265
If you would have read it, he said the house is old as fuck and he thinks it may fall down if he kicked the door down.

around what time frame do you think this family was around for?

>>17156358
This

>>17156124
around what time will you be dumping what you get from tomorrows trip?

Spoopy!

>>17156405
The door is on a hinge anon. It's not supporting anything.

If it is indeed abandoned, I would grabbed that beer mug and maybe the juicer. At least tried to save the nice stuff like that. In the past got interesting things from abandoned places before. Mostly old as fuck soda bottles, ones that aren't made anymore.

>>17156265
I was afraid that the house might collapse

>>17156280
Yeah, and sad too

>>17156358
You and me both anon, but I'd be kicking myself for it later

>>17156409
Early 1900s, my guess during the great depression. Looks like someone tried to modernize it, no use though. House is to damn old

>>17156502
Probably around 3 or 4, I know its gonna be towards night time. I'll probably just upload it at 10 so everyone is off work

>>17156524
I agree

>>17156530
But I don't know what's behind the door, might be big piles of wood and me kicking it will push the back of the house. Can never be to careful

>>17156578
Yeah, I did want to take a souvenir, but if I do get caught trespassing, I don't want to have anything on me that might criminalize me, no souvenir is worth a fine or even jailtime

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>>17155038
Why do all old houses in So. IL have old nasty bottles all over the place? Seriously. I have a property in Dorsey, IL, and there is so many random old bottles that I cant even begin to imagine how in Jesus' name anyone in my family could have used them. Like, some have been opened and refilled with whatever and were then just left out in the woods.

TL;DR I'm pretty disappointed Southern Illinois, it's time to get your bottle problem under control.

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>>17156629
Sometimes homeless or crackheads like to leave things behind that they won't need. For some reason, its easier for them to ditch it in an abandoned shed/home. Sometimes campers or other people going into the woods do this stuff just coz

>>17156629
I think it's that when people see abandoned and run down houses, it becomes a garbage dump for people who don't wanna pay the garbage company to drive out in hillbilly central to get their garbage every week

>>17156644
Also, this

>>17156596
Yeah don't. When did it was literally buried in the dirt, or I knew someone associated with the place. Still hate to see some things go to rot.

>>17156644
>hundreds if not thousands of my childhood hours were spent on that map

good times

Bumpin'

Wanna see the inside of that house

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>>17156688
I'm so happy my parents let me play a game where you can talk to strangers and make them cry

>>17155982
That rake doesn't seem too old, I've used rakes that seem more or less as rusted as that one and they're not too old.

I'll bump for that

>>17156061
"died" lol

OP here, gonna resize the images and organize everything.

We found some pretty cool shit

>>17155944
Don't you think you could climb over all that and hop inside rather than crawling under that moldy ass house?

>>17158781
I live very very very local to you.
I've got an interesting thing or two.

>>17158802
>>17158781
Another ghost town, just SE of Carbondale:
http://mypage.siu.edu/leehill/FamilyPhotos/Progress.htm

If you have any contact info we may be able to correspond.

>>17158799
I tried, but the walls on either side were so weak, I was afraid that the roof might give if I bumped into it.

>>17158974
Forgot to tripcode

I can post the pics now if you guys want. I have everything set

>>17158980
Go right ahead.

Also...>>17158804

>>17158804
I'll be sure to check it out, thanks. I'd rather go with people I know personally, sorry anon

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When we got there, my friend wanted to take a look around. See if there was anything I missed, we found some OLD money and a book. When I tried to open the book it just turned to dirt.

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I really wanted to keep this one, I found a old Indian bro, pretty good condition

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>>17159033

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Found some old fine china

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This was the last from outside, an old army cot.

After this, I crawled my way under the house and came up in one of the bedrooms

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Good thing I took my bolt cutters, they had a giant lock on the door.

I unlocked the door and let my friend in. It looks like a bombshell went of in here

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I made my way back into the bedroom and seen these old fashioned clothes, sorry for the shitty quality, I was standing on rotting floor and junk

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We also found these two statues, someone was a fan of the human body

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Making our way into the kitchen , I found some old ass liquor

>>17159041
I would've taken that as a souvenir

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>>17159066
Still half full

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I wonder what's in here

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>>17159081
A typewriter, still in good condition to

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>>17159084
You can still read the messages left behind on the typewriter

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Oh look another typewriter

>>17159078
Did you drink any?

>>17159094
I took a sip and so did my friend here, we agreed it tasted like fucking shit but it was still good.

>>17159100
You got stones. I couldn't have done that myself

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And a 3rd typewriter

>>17159104
How was the smell in the place

>>17159101
It's not like I was jumping to do it, he took a sip and called me a pussy because I didn't want to

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>>17159108
Mildew-ish. Kinda like a mix between dirt and mold.

We also found a HAM radio, and I think it works. All the typewriters worked just fine and still had ink in them

>>17159109
Peer pressure wins again. Keep going op

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Last picture I got, we found two machetes in the bedroom. We took them outside to get a better shot.

I might go back just for that Indian bro

>>17159118
Interesting. For an abandoned place I would have thought something perishable might have spoiled, but I guess after a long enough time that kind of thing doesn't really stay does it

>>17159140
I suppose a critter got to the spoiled food and ate it

After that we left, I was cold as shit and he had to work in a couple of hours. He kept one of the machetes

Should I go back for anything you think?

>>17159081
>>17159084

See, THIS is what a based OP should do when going to a spoopy location and encountering a box.

ACTUALLY FUCKING OPEN IT
AND TAKE PICTURES

Btw did your friend know gymnastics? Gotta stay safe.

>>17159151
Kek, did the OP of the pavilion thread ever come back?

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Well Done op. Nice way to start the year here. Hope it sets a tone for the rest of the year .

>>17159157

Yeah they said they went there but got scared away because there was a kid on a bike and a doggy.

Then the next day he went back and took a picture of a moose jawbone or some shit and got pissed when people were bitching him out for not actually doing anything and told everyone to fuck off and get someone else to do it

Great to see some southern Illinois stuff up on /x/, I live her as well and I've always wondered about all those little buildings and shit you get glimpses of when you drive through the forests during winter. Never had the balls to go exploring myself, many thanks to you OP for delivering!

>>17156629
Southern illinois is a black hole for bottles.

>>17159848
Dude...no joke. Next time I'm on the property I'll post a bunch of pictures on here.

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Cool thread, OP. I enjoyed the fresh OC and it seems like you had fun. Did you find any evidence to corroborate the story of the old people? It's not that they have a reason to lie, but that's quite a story - schizo mom killing her kids and herself, dad kills himself days later. Maybe the old couple got confused or wanted to scare you off.

The state of the house is odd though, looks like it was just left exactly the way it was. If it was abandoned, surely the bank would've taken it, or the city at least. I'd lean more towards it being left to a son/daughter and just forgotten about. There are a lot of boxes in the living room area, maybe the house was packed up and mothballed by someone, who then forgot all about it. Seems so sad to see so many personal things just left to rot away.

Did you see any dates on the coins here: >>17159029 Or on anything else? Getting an approximate time of abandonment would help you corroborate the story the old couple told you.

Mount Vernon here. If you need another to go with I am game.

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>>17161242
I looked up some shit about the case, wanted to see if it was legit or not, and as far as I can tell, yeah, the whole story is true. The couple did mention people staying in the house but not staying any longer for a couple of months, whether it be spoopy ghosts for financial problems I'm not for certain. The coins were from around 1900 to 1938, the rest were unreadable. Guessing they were from the same time period

>>17161262
Mount Vernon here too! OP, any idea of the approximate address of this house? Would love to explore through it.

Damn OP, this is what I imagine the inside of every house in Pomona to look like.

>>17159148
Go back for the oldest type writer, the radio, the booze, the Indian, the hula girls, and whatever other obscure items you consider trophies.

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Thank you so much OP. Fucking Love fresh OC

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If i can get my friend to come back with me today I'm gonna get that Indian bro and try and see if I can't find that well in the backwoods behind the house

>>17159081
If you're going back, you better take those tapes!!!

>>17162525
will do

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I gotta work tonight, so I'll go back to the house tomorrow and grab anything you guys want me to. I'm getting the Indian bro on my own accord. anything else is up for grabs

Pretty awesome post!! You've honestly inspired me OP! I know of a lot of places around here like that.. I'm thinking about doing some exploring!

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>>17163704
You definitely should anon, its kinda rewarding in its own weird way, better than sitting on /x/ refreshing the page over and over.

If you do, make a thread about it. /x/ is always craving OC content.

The place seems really melancholic, all those family graves in there, forgotten and fading away slowly.

great thread OP.

>>17161306
Carbondale here, if you give me an address I'll check it out as well.

>>17155038
where at in southern il

>>17165104
Marion

Is nobody else interested in knowing what's written in the typewriters?

>>17156055
Stillbirth?

>>17155949
Look into the window looks lile there someone living there..or left behind you should get afew friends to take a loom inside if noones living there.

OP dont go alone bring a friend please bring someone looking at the pics gave me a bad feeling

>>17159089
"testing/testing TESTING? HELLO TEST IT DOES WORK YES IT IS WORKING"

fuckin kekd

>>17159148
op you should go back for the vhs tapes in your image of the typewriter. thats were the good stuffs gonna be.

>>17159066
>>17159078
https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/taylor-and-ferguson/ambassador-25-year-old-blended-scotch-1960s-whisky/

Shit nigga, go back and take that bottle.

>>17161262
>>17161306
Mt. Vernon here as well. Look up @electricwizofoz on Twitter and we can go look for some spooky shit

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OP here, just got back from the house. I took a video of us there. I'll link it later.

Just to let you guys know, Indian bro is safe. We forgot the vhs tapes (will get them later) and we found ANOTHER type writer in great condition. We took the best looking ones

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>>17168870
One on the left is from 1952, the right is 1942

>>17168883

Those typewriters might be worth some money.

>>17168870
what time will you link it??

>>17169027
You might be surprised. Typewriters are generally not worth that much. The problem is they're big, heavy, and typically ugly. A few models might be worth a lot if they're in good shape, but most of them aren't worth more than $50. They're hard to display because they take up so much space. They can also be pretty ugly, so the more aesthetic models are the first to go. None of the typewriters OP took photos of look especially valuable.

Wowow

I go to school at SIU. Currently in Carbondale now

>>17156124

Same guy who made this >>17169162


I live right off of college st. You should take me along on your adventure

Update guys

My internets being a pig fucker so I'm trying to upload that damn video.

My friend was pissed that we forgot the tapes so we went back like 15 min. Ago

Bad idea

When we got there we parked way down the road in the woods. Drove about a half a mile without our lights so we wouldn't be seen.

This time me and my friend took another friend of ours with us. There is one orange powerline light at the end of the backroad the house was on.

There was two men just standing under the light at the end of the road watching us. Not moving

I'm not shitting you guys.

I got spooped when one of them starting walking the speed of fucking light towards us down the road and I nope'd outta there.

We'll go back for the tapes tommorow

>>17169267
pics??

>>17169284
Nope, my camera couldn't take a pic that far away in the dark. Sorry anon

>>17169315
Keep us posted

This thread is going places, OP. Try not to get spooked to death.

tfw im moving into SIU in a week

gotta keep this bumped. we will wait OP.

>>17159118
Should've typed "Feel The Bern".

>>17168883
If I were to do that I would have take more from the shed than the house. Something about being locked up as opposed to being left out in the elements. Reminds me when I and my family explored my great, great grandpa's abandoned house. Still have a cool Sesame Street fisher price playset my grandma rescued.

>>17169267
Maybe people who knew the family? probably they're pissed you're looting the place.

Best thread i've seen in a while, bump

The typewriters are how you save before shit gets weird

>>17170857
underrated post right here

Pinckneyville reporting in, keep up the good work OP!

>>17155944
You could easily climb that, life isn't a video game where you cant jump over low walls.

>>17168870
Inb4 cursed indianbro

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>>17159100
haha wtf

>>17159100

The nice thing about liquor is it doesn't really ever go bad.