Sophia loved the strange and the mysterious, and I loved her. I was excited to have something to offer her when she told me about her fascination with _urban exploring_, the art of exploring and photographing abandoned man made structures.

I bragged about the chocolate brown two story house that sat decaying at the very end of my dead end street. Each window was boarded up, and I told her that it...

“Come on, don’t be a wuss.” Jack laughed, putting an elbow into Cydni’s side. “It’s just a house.”

“It’s a creepy house,” Cydni pushed Jack away, “you go in, if you’re that brave then.”

Jack and Cydni walked side by side toward the end of the street of the cul-de-sac. The part of town no one really went anymore, unless you were up to something you would rather not have your parents find out...

4379 St. Petersburg circle. A house that sat merely three houses away from his own. Blackened by nature, flora taking over the front yard and the walls of the house. Windows and doors heavily boarded up. In all his memories, the house has looked exactly as it did this day. Never changing, and always desolate. His mother had said she had pictures from her childhood, and the house always looked the ...

I gulp as I stand in front of the house, it was boarded up as long as I can remember, though I never dared explore it, it was three stories tall, a veritable mansion. The design was one you could see on those old movies on Victorian America, perhaps this was once a respectable estate of a good family, but on this year, those time were long past now…

I release my breath as I walked up the door, th...

**The house at the end of the street had always been there, like a shadow, looming over my childhood memories. It was the kind of house you didn’t dare go near. Boarded-up windows, a crooked roof, the air always seemed thicker around it, as if it held its breath in silence. The older kids talked about it in whispers—some claimed they saw lights flickering behind the cracked walls at night, others ...

I can see my breath.

It’s cold outside I can feel the chills going down my spine.

I look at the clock of my beaten up ford contour its 3 am

What am I doing up right now im almost out of gas!

I make a left hand turn then a right

I need to go home I try to head that way

But I’m stopped there’s this house,

It’s not a normal house no there’s something about it,I feel drawn to it, I don’t know why.

I...

It shouldn’t have been boarded up. It’s lawn pristine and cleanly cut. Its trees always beautiful and following regulation. In the fall the leaves always found themselves in neatly tied bags by the curb. Yet no one came outside.

Once when I was smaller and full of that trepidantion that couldn’t be told no, I stayed up all night, watching. Waiting.

The lawn had been full of leaves, is was aroun...

“Sigh” muscles aching like something just hit me a 1000 times. “ that was fun we should do this more often.” Luna said to me with sweat running down her face like race cars on a track. “ at least I have somebody to run with”. Still panting like a dog on a summer day. “ u have a nice night Jay”, “you too as well” i threw right back at her. Thinking to my self when walking back home, I wonder how sh...

Pulling away from the groomy driveway of the bizarre building Bryce screams, “WATCH OUT!!”

One hazy tuesday afternoon, there’s a group of kids creeping down Devine Avenue with their car. The smell they had was only sweaty gym clothes and rotten cigars. “Watch were ya walking, will ya?!” Was a common quote said by many people passing by. Bryan would yell back an arrogant response and get Bryan, Da...

Josh found an abandoned house on route 68.

Him and a few buddies, decided to go explore it. Yeah they’ve done this, before but this time it was different.

Different how Josh and his buddies weren’t sure why? It was different it just was.

The floor was dark and dusty covered in thick layered dust. That sticked to Josh and buddies shoes as they stepped inside. The sound creaked as they walked In...