House of Cars by jerm IX, on Flickr
To say that the House of Cars has a creepy vibe to it is a major understatement. Something just isn't right here and you can feel it in the air. Fear pulsed through me on that first visit back in the spring, and it grew evermore intense with each and every subsequent visit. Yet it is that same skin crawling discomfort that continues to draw me back in for another look, time after time, with the most recent visit taking place just this morning.
It's not just the RV blocking the entrance to the overgrown driveway, or the 5 other cars abandoned on the property. Nor is it just the drug paraphernalia that moves around between visits, or the fact that this was the home of a former NHL hockey player and his family. It's not just the heart wrenching letter about a young man's suicide or the disturbing sexual collages on the floor beside a decomposed raccoon carcass in a trap on the second floor. It's not just the fact that seemingly all of the contents remain, albeit rifled through by someone, or the eerie thoughts provoked by the bedroom door that locks only from the outside. It's not just the fact that illicit activities are allegedly being performed here by members of the criminal underworld, nor is it the sense that I am being watched, even when no one else is around.
It is a culmination of all of these things that makes the House of Cars one of Ontario's creepiest abandoned houses.
I'll add a dozen or so images here but there are over 50 images on the blog link...
http://jermalism.blogspot.ca/2014/10/abandonment-issues-house-of-cars.html
BUICK Wildcat by jerm IX, on Flickr
Head on by jerm IX, on Flickr
TROUBADOUR by jerm IX, on Flickr
Mouthing off by jerm IX, on Flickr
She's come undone by jerm IX, on Flickr
Fear and Loathing in an Abandoned House by jerm IX, on Flickr
CV3338 by jerm IX, on Flickr
Oilers by jerm IX, on Flickr
R.I.P. by jerm IX, on Flickr
R.I.P. by jerm IX, on Flickr
Can't Buy A Thrill by jerm IX, on Flickr
