Today we stopped by this barn sale at a farm near our house, I had always wondered about this house, I wondered if it was abandoned or something, its completely surrounded by trees and shrubs, I forced D to stop at the “sale” we drove up but we were the only customers there, there was a small out building with tons and tons of unusable junk, there a couple of men really busy trying to get something out of the basement, everywhere you could see there was stuff laying around in piles really really old and unusable broken antiques and junk everywhere, did I say everywhere, the outside of the house was completely fascinating I tried to see something that could be used or fixed up and there was nothing, the lady in the shed said to go on into the house and make a offer on anything we wanted, we walked up the back worn steps into the eating area of the house there was no one inside but there was an old 70’s radio blasting old kinda spooky but appropriate music, there was a large table covered in misc kitchen things all antiques but completely worn and used out, I could not count how many cheap pots there were laying on the floor on the stove, my first thought is this place is a really crappy thrift store, but then looking around I realized someone used to live there, we went into room after room after room, I counted 17 rooms in the house, each room was the same in the respect that it had tons and tons of old dirty vintage handmade 1940’s clothing, books shoes in their original dirty boxes, in the room that looked to be the most recently used there was a pack of depends, a red 8o’s phone next to a dingy twin size bed plugged in, I picked it up to see if it still worked, and the weirder thing was a 1980’s economical size of listerine, the room was painted white and there was a small plastic crucifix nailed to the wall across from the bed,
In one room the ceiling had almost fallen in, there were stoves everywhere three in the kitchen and Fridges everywhere, every room had a 1960’s-1970’s Tv,
The living room was the most intact room it had a really nice fireplace and beautiful fixtures, the ceiling had a wooden beams going across the entire expanse, there was a wall of plastic religious art and a plastic bottle of holy water.
We went up the grand stair case, this would be the house to film a horror movie, there was a full room upstairs that had been made into a wardrobe room it was around 14/16-ft the whole room had vintage clothing all around the entire room, I thought this person was totally a clothing horse, I looked down and realized I was standing on the most worn out Persian type rug ever to be seen.
I can only say that the people who lived in this home bought and made everything they owned between 1940-1970 and NEVER threw out anything, we left the house completely scratching our heads to who in the heck lived here and what is going on, we walked out the three men were still working at getting the thing out of the basement, they looked our way with curious faces, I went over to the bearded one and I asked him what the story is with this house, he said my mother lived here and she just passed away, there are 8 of us kids and we are cleaning out the place, this other man came up to me and started telling us everything he said he is the oldest of the eight, he was a farmer he has 52 cousins,and his family is related to the famous actor Jim Caviezel, he also told me he knows my neighbors, there is a gold mine by my house, he put the roof on his barn, he runs a thrift store, and he has three kids, as well as he used to be Catholic, he was the sweetest man ever, the other man told me he used to be catholic but now he is Jewish.
It was truly an experience in a half.