The most memorable thing in this house is not a room. It is a car. A dusty white Mazda MX-5 convertible sits in a cluttered garage with a shattered windscreen, and someone has written messages in the dust on its bonnet. It is the kind of detail that stays with you, and it is also the most honest summary of the house: everything was left, exactly where it was, and nobody came back for any of it.
The post that published these photographs is frank about how little it knows. The explorer writes that he does not have too much on this one, but that he has been told the house has been left abandoned since 2015-2016. That date is second-hand — “I have been told” — and it is presented here the same way. No place is named, no owner is named, and no reason is given for why the house was left. What follows comes from the post and from the five photographs shown here.
The car in the garage
The Mazda is a white MX-5 convertible, covered in dust, in a garage full of clutter. Its windscreen is shattered. Messages are written in the dust on the bonnet, including “I Love You Dad” and “MX-5 I am sorry”. Tyres and boxes and a wicker chair crowd around it. The car is the single clearest sign that this house was not emptied in a hurry and then forgotten — it was lived in, filled up, and then left with the car still in the garage.
The post calls the Mazda “a nice gem”, and it is easy to see why. In a house where every surface is covered, the car is the one object with a story written on it, literally, in dust. The messages suggest someone cared about the car and about the person the first message names. Nothing more is known, and nothing more is claimed.
Outside, the house does not look abandoned at first glance. The featured photograph, taken from the road, shows a two-storey house with shingle and tile cladding, stone lower walls, and green garage doors, with a red car parked in front, bare trees, and daffodils in the garden. The post says the outside shows it was once a lovely looking house, and the photograph agrees. The garden is green, the daffodils are out, and the house looks cared for from the street.
A house where everything stayed
Inside, the picture is different. The post calls the house “a hoarders paradise with everything left here, there and everywhere”, and the photographs bear that out. A corner desk is buried under rubbish: an old CRT television and a flatscreen monitor, keyboards, mugs, bottles, papers, comics and magazines strewn across the floor, a box marked FRAGILE, teddy-bear wallpaper behind it all. Wooden bookcases are crammed with old books under a ceiling that has collapsed and let the water in, with cobwebs and peeling plaster overhead. The living room has a pink armchair and sofa amid the clutter, yellow insulation hanging from a damaged ceiling, moss on exposed brickwork, and a hanging lampshade.
The explorer writes that it was hard to get good shots and angles without falling and treading carefully, and the photographs make that easy to believe. The floors are covered, the rooms are crowded, and every step would have been a negotiation with somebody else’s belongings.
What the photographs show — and what they cannot
- The house was left with everything in it. The desk, the bookcases, the living room, and the car in the garage are all still full.
- The house has been empty since around 2015-2016. That is what the explorer was told, not something he verified.
- The ceiling has failed in places. The bookcase photograph shows a collapsed, water-damaged ceiling; the living room shows insulation hanging from a damaged ceiling.
- The garden has been kept up. Daffodils are out, and the lawn looks cut — which leads to the next point.
What the photographs cannot show is why the house was left, who lived in it, or whether it will ever be lived in again. The clutter is evidence of a life, not an explanation of it. The Mazda’s dust messages are the closest thing to a personal record in the house, and they raise more questions than they answer.
The neighbours who kept mowing
The kindest detail in the post has nothing to do with the house itself. It has been said, the explorer writes, that neighbours have been cutting the lawn to help try to keep the house from looking derelict. The featured photograph supports that: the garden is green, the daffodils are in flower, and the front of the house looks tended, even though nobody lives there.
The explorer ends the post by hoping the house has been saved and given a new lease of life since he explored it. That hope is from May 2026, when the post was published, and there is no update in the post about whether it happened. It is left here as a hope, not as a fact.
A house full of one person’s belongings, a car with a message in the dust, and neighbours mowing a lawn for someone who is not there. That is the whole story, and it does not need anything added to it.
More homes in this condition are gathered in the site’s abandoned houses. For the contrast — a house that is still a home — see a lived-in 1902 home in Minnesota. The site’s front page is abandoned.blog.
FAQ
How long has the Hoarders House been empty?
Since 2015-2016, according to what the explorer was told. That date is second-hand, not verified.
What is the Mazda in the garage?
A dusty white Mazda MX-5 convertible with a shattered windscreen, with messages written in the dust on its bonnet.
What was left inside the house?
Everything, according to the post: a desk buried under rubbish, bookcases full of books, a living room full of clutter, and the car in the garage.
Is the house damaged?
Yes, in places. The photographs show a collapsed, water-damaged ceiling over the bookcases and insulation hanging from a damaged living-room ceiling.
Where is the house?
No place is named in the post, and none is given here.
Who kept the lawn cut?
Neighbours, according to the post — it has been said they cut the lawn to help keep the house from looking derelict.
Has the house been saved?
Not known. The explorer hoped it had been given a new lease of life, but no update is given in the post.
Can I visit it?
No visiting information is given here, and entering private property without permission is not encouraged.
Disclaimer
This article is general information only, not legal, tax, or financial advice. Rules on abandoned and private property differ by state and county; check county/local records and a local professional before acting.
Photos
Photos by Luke2Explore, via the original Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/Luke2Explore/posts/abandoned-hoarders-houseunfortunately-i-dont-have-too-much-on-this-one-but-i-hav/1449115630587454/ — 5 of the 28 photos are shown here.
