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This is a brief video and a touching glimpse into this depleted but hopeful mountain community. Pay attention to the service station attendant feeding bread crumbs to a song sparrow that flew into his office, it's near the end.
I've been to Virginia and West Virginia and I have driven through several coal mining towns like this. I remember one spring driving up Big Stone Gap (a town made famous by the bestselling book series) and shopping at the Walmart that looked how it probably looked when it was first built in the '80s. It was spare like the old K-mart stores. I remember buying a chili dog outside from two church ladies with hair in buns and dresses down to their ankles. They were very nice and I felt like I was in a time warp as I ate my hotdog and gazed down the mountain at the tiny cluster of brick buildings abutting the valley of green feathers and stone ridge.
I've been to Virginia and West Virginia and I have driven through several coal mining towns like this. I remember one spring driving up Big Stone Gap (a town made famous by the bestselling book series) and shopping at the Walmart that looked how it probably looked when it was first built in the '80s. It was spare like the old K-mart stores. I remember buying a chili dog outside from two church ladies with hair in buns and dresses down to their ankles. They were very nice and I felt like I was in a time warp as I ate my hotdog and gazed down the mountain at the tiny cluster of brick buildings abutting the valley of green feathers and stone ridge.
...that could have been lifted from the book I'm reading on Ohio "ghost towns"....gotta love the juxtaposition between feeding the sparrow and pulling the revolver out of his pocket when he arrived at work.....
Cool, what's the book called?
Yeah, that was great. The grease stained Union 76 cap, too. All great details, and like you said, poignant juxtaposition of the revolver and bird.
....that's what I get when I don't read the full description of a book before I buy it....was looking for some paranormal spots in Ohio and bought a few books with ghost stories in them...genius here, thinking since the title was "Ghosts"-it would be about friggin' GHOSTS!!!.....nope, but the silver lining in that transaction cloud was-it's a damn good read-but no ghosts of the afterlife kind.......
I follow Forgotten Alabama on Facebook and people upload old barns covered in kudzu, antebellum remnants, graveyards (sort of like the pics in your Scott's Photoshop) and other "forgotten" places that aren't necessarily spooky or haunted. I'd probably dig that book. I'm interested in old towns that are now in deserted shambles. I imagine my reflection rippling in the dark panes of empty stores as I pass or barbershops where my writer's ears would strain to hear past conversations.
....there is some of that in this book, but it also deals with "near ghost towns" and "towns that no longer exist".....also, boom towns that hung on but are a shade of their former glories.....
....this week, charting at number 1 with a balloon on the Derry Hot 100.......
This place is amazing! It seems to be in Canada. The organ at the top of the stairs is... wow! Folks say they see a ghost cat at 26:13
This is great. I wonder how many times he'd (she'd?) visited before this. The person filming has rather quick sweeping movements, not like someone soaking up the view for the first time. He (She?) did have a moment of trepidation before walking inside. Who'd leave a beautiful (yet spooky) house unlocked and (presumably) abandoned?
That was my thought, too. My husband went nuts when he saw the organ at the top of the stairs. I spotted a great room for a library. If we had the money, we'd buy that house and make it grand again. *sigh*
Thanks for posting! What a majestic house... I can't understand it was just left like that. You know, usually places like that have a creepy aura, but this house seems to be completely free of that. All I feel is harmony, that's nice for a change.
I've always been into urban exploring, but in this country there's nothing to explore. Blink and the building is gone. Thankfully the internet is filled with awesome videos and pictures, it fascinates me to no end. A psychiatric hospital in a village near me was abandoned not too long ago, but they were on it in no time. I can still hit myself for not going there when I had the chance.
I've always been into urban exploring, but in this country there's nothing to explore. Blink and the building is gone. Thankfully the internet is filled with awesome videos and pictures, it fascinates me to no end. A psychiatric hospital in a village near me was abandoned not too long ago, but they were on it in no time. I can still hit myself for not going there when I had the chance.
Hey, by the way, is it just me or does anybody else think it's almost like no one has ever lived there? It looks wasted away, yes, but everything looks unused and unfinished... Like it was never ready to occupy in the first place.
Maybe that's where the sense of harmony comes from; there are no spirits/energies there to begin with...
Maybe that's where the sense of harmony comes from; there are no spirits/energies there to begin with...