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(63 votes) Published: Nov 15, 2007 9:49 p.m. Viewed 385 times
This is part two of my exploration egg. It depicts my exploration of a house that was abated (I seriously can not think of the common word for that, it means “terminated.”) Before I start, if you haven’t read Part I yet, please do. It will keep me from repeating unnecessary information and help you understand where I am coming from. I’m going to write this egg in the inference that you have read its companion.
Here’s the link to the previous egg:
http://www.rotteneggs.com/r3/show/se/348281.html We’ll start off this egg right where I finished with its precursor: I have gained access to the house via a fire escape/atrium located on the side of the house. Before entering this structure, I kept in mind what the Notice of Abatement had stated:
Forenote: I didn’t have my flashlight with me this time. I had forgotten about it up to the point where I was actually entering the place. Looking into the void on the other side of the window revealed nothing to me but darkness. My eyes had become well adjusted to the darkness of the atrium, but the house was unlit and the walls were covered with smoke stains, which reduced the reflectivity significantly, and made the place very dim. I decided to use the LCDisplay on my camera as a light, and it worked quite well, although things were a lot dimmer for me than they are in the pictures (because the pictures are taken with the flash.)
Basement level: As stated, I started out at the window. The first thing I noticed upon entering the place was the smell. It wasn’t strong but it was ever-present throughout the whole edifice. If any of you have gone camping you’ll be familiar with the smell your clothes acquire after you’ve stood around the fire for more than an hour; that smoky scent. That’s what this whole house smelt like; which wasn’t too bad actually.
I took this first picture as I was climbing over the windowsill into the room. You can see the floor is strewn with debris. You can also see a set of French doors opening into the main room of the basement, and a strange structure made of plywood to the side. I just ignored the plywood assembly, it looked like it was put in after the fire had been extinguished. Also, now that I look at this picture, it appears that there are pancakes laying on the floor. Too bad I didn’t notice them until now: I could have taken a closer look and identified what they were. I tried zooming in on them, and they still look like pancakes, lol. My guess is that, they are some kind of fungi (gross.) I suppose it is possible since you can see leaves that had blown in from the hole in the roof. There might be a certain firefighter on RE who can lend insight as to what we’re looking at. If there is such a member; I would welcome any insight as to what is presented in these pictures.
Next, I took a picture of the ceiling. As you can see the paint has been completely eradicated, leaving smoke stained drywall and joint tape hanging from the edges. You can also see that the light fixture has been burnt as well. The glass dome covering the bulb has been stained with soot and smoke and looks like a giant pearl.
In the corner of the room, I saw the circuit breaker, which looked out-of-service.
I went toward the French doors, taking caution with every step (I didn’t want anything falling on me.) You can see in the following picture that there is a flight of stairs just outside the room that lead up to the main floor of the building. I decided that I would climb the steps after I had taken a better look at the basement. There was a main room to the right.
Here’s what the main room looked like, I brightened the picture a little so you can see the counter up ahead. Also notice the nasty black splotches on the wall. In my experience in general contracting, that is mold growing on the wall, that stuff makes me shiver. I took a shower as soon as I got back to where I was staying:
The counter is covered with pieces of burnt drywall that has fallen from the ceiling.
Here’s a picture of the whole “kitchen:”
Here’s a close-up of the sink, or the cavity that used to contain the sink:
There was what looked like a giant bucket hanging from the ceiling, I couldn’t figure out what this was:
Here’s the remnants of a wine cellar that I found in another room behind that kitchen.
This is the ceiling of that room:
Here’s another room, is it just me or does that hanging piece of paper have a face on it?
To me it looks like some creature with it’s mouth opened:
Here’s the basement bathroom. This mirror wasn’t broken or anything, but when the picture came out, it looks like it’s warped. Strange isn’t it?:
The bathtub has more rubble in it. Look there’s still soap in there!
Here the ceiling vent, totally gross:
Found a big hole in the drywall here:
This is a little cubby hole underneath the stairs:
I also checked out the uncarpeted room that every house has that houses the sump-pump, but it wasn’t very interesting at all.
I carefully made my way up the stairs:
While I was going up the stairs, I looked up and took a picture of the stairs to the second floor, just to make sure they weren’t burnt.
1st Floor
Once up the stairs, I looked to my left and saw graffiti on the wall. It said something like “Noobe Sucks.” It was so poorly tagged that I couldn’t read what it was saying.
I went to my left and found the front door. You can see that it has been configured so that the locks are keyed on the inside.
Here’s the main room, you can see that this is where the fire was strongest, as it ate through the roof. All that black in the background is the night sky:
Here’s the main room, that’s the kitchen at the back of the room, where it says “ass no” on the wall. You figure that one out.
I took a picture of the main living room, you can see a bunch of debris and a fire place.
I almost ran into that fucking wire in the darkness. It was attached to another one of those weird bucket looking things, as seen in the basement.
Here’s what was located to the right of the kitchen, it didn’t come out so well since I took a picture of such a large area.
This looks where the stove must have been, strange that none of the wood work was burnt. All of the cupboards seem barely affected. Oh and correction, it looks like the tagger was writing “asshole.” They just ran out of space, and don’t know an “n” from an “h.”
Next, I checked the garage, which was empty except for some boards (as seen in the companion egg) and a nasty looking toilet.
That toilet made me sick, I decided to go upstairs to the 2nd floor. I don’t think there is a single abandoned house that I’ve been in that didn’t have a toilet that looked like that.
2nd Floor I went up the stairs, and took a picture of what was behind me; after taking a picture of the stairs:
What a dump, it’s too bad that this house got burnt down over/for nothing. Here’s a picture of the 2nd story hallway:
Looks like I found where that toilet used to be:
In some of these pictures it made some of those “ghost orbs” that people always put on those hokey ass ghost websites. OOOOEEEEOOOO!
In this picture, it looks like you can see a smoke ring along the wall there. I’m no expert, so that is only a theory. The following pictures will be of the roof, and how damaged it was:
Extrication: That’s right about when I left. I made sure to close the window on my way out, and lock it back up. I went to a neighborhood a couple blocks away and threw my tool in a lake. I smoked a cigar while I sat on a ledge over the lake, where I took off the sweatpants, and put on my jeans. I took the towel with the glass in it along with the section of T-shirt and put them both in one of the legs of the sweatpants. Then I put a bunch of rocks in the other leg in the sweatpants and tied off the legs and waist so that nothing would fall out and float up. I threw the sweat pants in the lake and finished my cigar while I walked to my car. Right before I met the block where my car was parked, I put the ski-mask in a drain opening, along with the spent cigar. Then I went to the place I was staying at and took a long shower. That’s about it, if you have any insight on how this thing burned down or anything, feel free to speak freely.
Nov 16, 2007 7:44 pm - MhF4Life: Remind me to rate you fairly, IcyHot.
Pentium: Agreed. You know a house is unsafe when there are mushrooms growing in it.
JoshyPoshy: LMFAO that you put a link there!
Nov 16, 2007 9:20 pm - That was a great exploration. I liked how it was in 2 parts. How bad was the toilet really? Judging from the pictures it didn’t seem that bad. 5*s
Oh yeah was it really necessary to throw away the glass shards and sweatpants into the lake?
Nov 16, 2007 10:25 pm - thegreenfern: I guess you’re right about the toilet: If anything was still worth anything in that house, it’d probably be that toilet. But even so, I still wouldn’t sit on it.
As for the disposal of all the evidence:In this situation; no, it probably wasn’t necessary; but that’s how I have always done it. I always smoke a cigar while I dispose of the evidence. It’s kind of a ritual really. I’ve been in a lot of situations were it paid off to be paranoid and I can buy gloves and a ski-mask for 99 cents each, so why not? My old friend used to say, "if you’re lucky, you’ll never find out how important it is to cover your tracks."
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