It was late fall and the sun was dropping along with the temperature. I approached this dilapidated old farm house by the main road, crunching through dead leaves and avoiding branches that had fallen of the large oaks hanging limply in the cold air.

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I circled around to the back of the shack after exploring the sinking from porch, looking for easy entry. I located a broken screen door, and a large empty wasp nest which I avoided while entering the house. The floor was a mis-match of cracked old linoleum.

I moved to the center of the first room and pulled out my tripod, setting up my point-and-shoot Canon. This particular camera doesn’t perform so hot in low-light, but its all I had at the time. There is a loud bang from an adjacent room that almost made me have a heart attack. Then I remember that the wind had been picking up and the front door wasn’t secured very well.

I take my first shot and move deeper into the old, moldy and creaking dark of the old homestead.

This is the kind of thing you can experience when exploring old structures. You should be careful to look for rotted floors, ceilings, and asbestos in these places. Also animals and vagrants that may be holding up in an empty space.

It can be worth it if you’re looking for a piece of someones past, a very strange yet haunting image or some really cool structures.