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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Abandoned places freaktography - The Untold Story
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There’s something about an abandoned building that can make you feel in awe while giving you the creeps at the same time. What was once a vibrant and lively environment has since been deserted, left to deteriorate, or even become a site for a ghost-hunting adventure.
There are apparently many of those sites all over the world, and here are some photos courtesy of the Freaktography subreddit. While most of these snapshots are of neglected homes and commercial buildings, with furnishings included, some are of local landmarks that once held significance.
We’ve compiled a list of those photos for you to enjoy. Be sure to upvote those that catch your eye!
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#1
Abandoned Historic Church In Stonehenge, Saskatchewan
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#3
Historic Abandoned Theatre
Here's a bit of insight into Freaktography. According to Google, it’s a pseudonym for a Canadian photographer who specializes in urban exploration. He has quite a social media presence with tens of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, to name a few.
#4
200 Year Old Abandoned House
Robyn Hill 15 hours ago
I'm going to need that Shaker chair in the last photo. And that Victorian sofa.
#5
Abandoned St Agnes Church And School - Detroit
#6
Abandoned Time Capsule House Filled With Vintage Treasures
Shot this abandoned time capsule house on one of the coldest days I’ve ever been out exploring, but it paid off. Every room was packed with vintage treasures like the owners just walked away and never came back.
Clearly, Freaktography’s work resonates with people. But what is it about abandoned buildings that draws attention? One of them is the place's history, where you get a deeper backstory about how it got to where it is.
#8
The Abandoned Grow Op Mansion: King City, Ontario Canada
#9
Explored The Abandoned Loretto Convent In Niagara Falls, An Eerie Historic School Sitting Empty Despite Huge Redevelopment Plans
“Abandoned places are like stories that have been cut short,” real estate expert and Waterfront Homes LLC founder Chris Murphy told Bored Panda. “A hotel lobby with peeling wallpaper, a deserted school hallway, or a seaside cottage left to the effects of the weather. It makes you wonder what happened there. The building is still standing, but the life inside it has disappeared.”
#10
The Abandoned "Splatalot" Game Show Set - Ontario, Canada
The Abandoned Splatalot Game Show Set was the site of a hilarious medieval-themed physical game show geared to the tween audience, featuring an extreme obstacle course with heaps and loads of splats and spills.
Each episode features a different group of thrill-seeking teen contestants, dubbed Attackers, competing in three hilarious rounds: Cross the Moat, Escape the Stockade, and Capture the Crown.
The Defenders of Splatalot, an international squad of medieval-themed gladiators, do their best to protect the castle from the Attackers – leaving only one to be crowned King or Queen of Splatalot.
The filming of Splatalot began in Amaranth Ontario back in September of 2010. The show, which was aired on YTV, ABC Australia, the BBC in England as well as Disney and Nickelodeon in the United States, lasted two seasons.
Each episode featured 12 contestants, known as the Attackers, facing off against gladiators, the Defenders of Splatalot, over three stages — cross the moat, escaping the stockades and finally, capturing the crown.
However, the castle’s spinning mace wheel, giant foam axes, water engulfed floor, water guns and walls are now a shell of what they once were as the show stopped filming in 2015 leaving the set vacant and open to the elements, also very visible to curious passers by on the local road way.
#11
Abandoned Luxury Hotel
#12
Abandoned State Hospital For The Insane
An abandoned place can also tap into something within us. According to clinical psychologist Dr. Daniel Glazer, it has to do with what he calls the “frozen story concept.”
#14
Inside A 1969 Mid Century Time Capsule House Left Untouched For 50+ Years
Lyone Fein 10 hours ago
There are about 20 pictures. The wallpapers and lighting fixtures are amazing.
#15
Pics From Abandoned Insane Asylum In New York State
“A frozen story refers to a space (place) where life was clearly present but has now stopped. Our brains have a natural desire to complete the missing narrative,” Dr. Glazer noted, adding that an abandoned place fascinates people because of their potential to “evoke both our imagination and our mortality.”
#16
A Tour Through The Now Demolished London Psychiatric Hospital
Divado 9 hours ago
This image shows an index card box containing various labels used in psychology or psychiatry, likely from the DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Second Edition) or a similar mid-20th-century diagnostic catalog.The presence of the label "Homosexuality" alongside conditions like "Insomnia," "Hypertension," and "Paranoia" is a notable historical artifact. It reflects the era before 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM.
#17
Exploring Abandoned Essex County Jail
#18
Grandma's Abandoned Time Capsule House
Dr. Glazer also mentioned “controlled unease” and projection as reasons why we are drawn to deserted places. As he explained, controlled unease is the ability to allow oneself to be uncomfortable or scared while feeling safe from harm.
It’s akin to enjoying a slasher film in the comfort of your home without worrying about the dangers of dealing with a knife-wielding attacker.
#19
A Disgraced Abandoned Religious Boarding School
Robyn Hill 15 hours ago
From the original post: "Numerous former students of this purported Christian boarding school endured various forms of appalling mistreatment at the hands of the school’s administration and staff. This included severe corporal punishment, continual verbal and emotional a***e, harassment, yelling, scapegoating, shunning, sleep deprivation, forced manual labor, and isolation. One student recounted being assaulted, isolated, thrown downstairs, repeatedly kicked, deprived of food and sleep, locked in walk-in freezers, forced to sleep in soiled bedding for a week, harassed, and witnessing assaults on other children. When he reported these assaults to adult staff, he was beaten with a two-by-four."
#20
Canada's Largest Abandoned Mansion
Bi.Felicia 14 minutes ago
After clicking on the link and seeing the additional photos and the story that goes along with it, I still don't understand why an ambulance was also abandoned at a privately owned mansion? The ambulance has NEPTS- which I think stands for North Eastern Patient Transfer Services, which is a company from Haileybury, Ontario. I couldn't find much on my quick search, but why would they just abandon one of their most vital resources? There also is an abandoned fuel tanker truck, in one of the additional photos? Curious?
#21
Abandoned Mid Century Modern Mansion In Ontario, Built In The 1960s And Now Waiting For Its Fate
This abandoned house was built in the late 1960s as a mid century modern residence, it was designed to integrate with its surroundings rather than dominate them. The house is listed on the city’s heritage inventory, but it is not fully protected, and its future remains uncertain.
I documented the house and focused on its architecture, history, and current condition rather than myths or exaggeration.
Saint_Zipcodus (oh / no) 12 hours ago
If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs
Then, there’s projection, which, according to Dr. Glazer, is usually done without realizing it.
“Many people subconsciously project their own emotions onto abandoned areas, including grief, nostalgia, burnout, isolation, and/or fear of being forgotten, which creates a sense of familiarity or emotional connection to the space,” he explained.
#22
282 Meters Over The Ground In Germany, Abandoned Coal Powerplant Demolished Now
#23
Abandoned 1950s Era Diner
Becca not Becky 2 hours ago
We need to make these popular again. I've been to a few and they can be super fun
#24
Abandoned Hotel Pub With Everything Still Inside
#25
Inside Ontario’s Brockville Psychiatric Hospital Before It’s Gone Forever
Sarah Bailey 3 hours ago
The porthole window room must have been interesting, but the room above still looks lovely. The building doesn't look that much in disrepair shame they can't repurpose it.
#26
Abandoned Private Eyes Strip Club - St Catharines, Ontario
#27
Abandoned House With 1970s Decor And Full Of Antique Furniture
Sarah Bailey 3 hours ago
Ahhh that brickwork must have been the pride of the house. I certainly would have been ecstatic to show that off to my loved ones.
#29
Abandoned St Catharines YMCA. $100,000s Of $1,000 In Equipment Wasted
Kabuki Kitsune 1 hour ago
The city considered taking over the property but ultimately passed on it due to an estimated $5.5+ million in annual operating costs and millions more in required building and accessibility repairs. The site was sold to Atria Development, and the structure is slated for total demolition to be redeveloped for residential housing.
#30
Last Look Inside The Abandoned Niagara Square Mall Before Demolition
persephone134 41 minutes ago
I wonder for how long this mall has been sitting empty? It looks very clean and new. The skylights have been taken good care of.
#31
Bikers House Abandoned For Over 30 Years
Kabuki Kitsune 1 hour ago
The owner passed away, and had no last will and testament. So the estate has been tied up in the courts for the past 30 years. There's some issue with probate that's prevented its sale.
#32
The Abandoned Wedding Dress House
#33
This $4,000,000 Mansion Was Only Built 17 Years Ago? Why Demolish It?
Kabuki Kitsune 1 hour ago
The land it's built on, is now worth three times what the mansion itself is worth. A land developer purchased it and tore the mansion down to subdivide and resell the land itself.
#35
Exploring An Abandoned Newspaper Headquarters
#36
$14 Million Dollar Abandoned Mansion To Be Demolished
Saint_Zipcodus (oh / no) 12 hours ago
There is this street in a very high-end part of London, Bishop's Row (nicknamed Billionaire's Row). There, dozens of multi million pound mansions are left to rot because nobody can afford the cost and upkeep. So, they decay. In one of the poshest and most expensive locations in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
#37
Buffalo State Asylum - Then And Now
Kabuki Kitsune 1 hour ago
There's another set of photos further up from it. Technically, not abandoned. Some of the buildings have been converted into a luxury hotel.
#40
Abandoned Piano
Kabuki Kitsune 1 hour ago
More common than you'd expect. Pianos are a PITA to move around, and quite often, once you get them in some place, they aren't coming out.
#44
Old Weathered Wooden Hut Standing Alone In A Green Field Under A Cloudy Sky In Alberta, Canada
#45
Abandoned Century Home, Ontario Canada
#47
The Canadian Niagara Power Station, Before It Became A Tourist Destination
July 3rd is a pretty special day, it was this day in 2019 that I spent several hours exploring and navigating the many halls, rooms and different levels of the former Canadian Niagara Power Station in Niagara Falls.
Opened in 1905, closed 100 years later in 2005 and officially decommissioned in 2006, this was one of three power plants in Niagara Falls that were left vacant and unused.
The station saw quite a bit of activity in the early 2000's, with several urban explorers documenting their trips into the plant and into the tailrace. Many told stories of having to rappel down into the tailrace, or, make a very sketchy trek along the shores of the lower Niagara River to get up and into the tailrace from below.
My opportunity came in 2019 when a good friend of mine, and a very seasoned explorer, had a successful trip into the plant and let me know.
I have documented this all on my website for those who wish to read the story.
During the time of this visit, the Niagara Parks Commission were in the process of evaluating the facility for potential use as a tourist destination, museum and experience.
These plans became a reality on July 1st, 2021 when Phase One of the plan officially opened - the main hall opened as a tourist destination. Then, one year later in July 2022, Phase Two saw the opening of "The Tunnel", taking tourists down a glass elevator into the dark and damp tailrace tunnel for an experience and a view of Niagara Falls that had previously only been reserved for few.
I took that tour in the summer of 2021 with my daughter, Victoria, closing the loop on this whole experience!
Roberta Surprenant 14 hours ago
Did tour of operating electric plant in 1963 when I was seven, it had the first "electric eye" door my family had ever seen.
#48
Abandoned House In Ontario Canada
#49
Abandoned For Decades, This Farmhouse In Ontario Is On The Verge Of Collapse—but Its Past Is Still Inside
#50
Abandoned Carrot Creek General Store – A Forgotten Stop Along Alberta’s Old Highway
Kabuki Kitsune 58 minutes ago
"Old Highway" is the key here. Once a newer, larger 4+ lane highway was built, that bypassed this location, commerce and sales dried up.
#51
A Badly Decayed Elvis Bust Was Found In An Equally Decayed Abandoned House In September 2022
#53
Exploring The Massive Abandoned Prince Edward Heights Complex In Ontario (Former Wwii Military Base)
Kabuki Kitsune 57 minutes ago
The Prince Edward Heights complex is a massive abandoned site in Prince Edward County, Ontario, built on the former WWII Camp Picton. It operated as a residential facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from 1971 until September 1999. Portions of the greater historic airbase have undergone redevelopment into an arts, culture, and events venue now known as Base31.
#54
Creepy Old Abandoned House On A Foggy Day
Kabuki Kitsune 56 minutes ago
Given how it's been stripped back to the walls, I'm reluctant to call this abandoned totally. That kind of stripping is only done during a restoration.
#55
Very Modern Mcmansion Thats Been Abandoned
Kabuki Kitsune 55 minutes ago
Housing crisis of 2008. Watch the Big Short it will explain (Margot Robie in a bathtub will explain actually). The people that built this, lost it because they couldn't afford the mortgage. Now it's in some bank's. foreclosure portfolio.
#57
Abandoned Cat Lady Hoarder Time Capsule House
Robyn Hill 15 hours ago
That's not a hoarding house. I've been inside hoarding houses. This is not that.
#59
This Vacant Heritage Home Was Demolished Despite Being Protected Under The Ontario Heritage Act
Kabuki Kitsune 53 minutes ago (edited)
The former "Halfway House" at 1475 Lakeshore Road East in Oakville, Ontario, was a designated heritage building built in the 1830s. It was demolished by a developer without municipal permits or authority. The property owner, 1475 Lakeshore Road East Inc., ignored a stop-work order issued by the town's building department and tore down the structure. Following the razing of the building, the now-vacant 14.5 million plot was listed for sale, further fueling public frustration over the enforcement mechanisms meant to safeguard Ontario's historical architecture.
#64
The Flooded Underbelly Of A Huge Abandoned Power Plant In The USA
#68
Trailer Park Ghost Town - Green Oaks Trailer Park: Erased By Marineland
Kabuki Kitsune 49 minutes ago
A historically notable (but now closed) trailer park situated right beside the Marineland theme park on Stanley Avenue. The 47-family community was famously subject to mass evictions in 2009 by Marineland ownership to clear the land for non-residential use. On February 23, 2009 owner John Holer became subject of controversy when the tenants of Green Oaks were given notice that their leases were being terminated and that they had 18 months to move. The reason of notice was "to convert the unit or complex to a non-residential use". In the end, 7 families remained and continued their fight before the Landlord and Tenant board, but in January those tenants lost their fight and were given until March 31st to leave.
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Peter Bear 18 hours ago
So many abandoned places... and so many homeless people in the world. It's almost like there's a solution to both problems staring us in the face, if we actually bothered to put in a little work...
Elladine DesIsles 14 hours ago
Far too many of these are rather close to me - and therefore to my teenager, who has demonstrated an interest in "urban exploration" that I appreciate as a human, but don't love as a parent.
LtKernelPanic 18 hours ago
The YT channel TheProperPeople has done some amazing UrbEx videos over the years. Worth checking out if you like that kind of thing.
Peter Bear 18 hours ago
So many abandoned places... and so many homeless people in the world. It's almost like there's a solution to both problems staring us in the face, if we actually bothered to put in a little work...
Elladine DesIsles 14 hours ago
Far too many of these are rather close to me - and therefore to my teenager, who has demonstrated an interest in "urban exploration" that I appreciate as a human, but don't love as a parent.
LtKernelPanic 18 hours ago
The YT channel TheProperPeople has done some amazing UrbEx videos over the years. Worth checking out if you like that kind of thing.
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