Professor’s House: Angela’s Beetle and a Life Left Behind

Hidden amongst overgrown trees, the post begins, lies the abandoned professor’s house. It is a plain opening for a plain-looking cottage — white walls going green with ivy, render peeling off in sheets, windows boarded, a slate roof still mostly holding. But the post that goes with the photographs tells a fuller story than most, and it gives the house a name: Angela.

Angela, the post says, was a professor. She inherited the house from her father. She died in 2019, but was living in care at the time. She had no children and no siblings. And so the property has been left full of all her worldly possessions — a whole life, in a house with nobody left to claim it.

A professor’s house, left full

The facts in the post come in a particular order, and the order matters. First the inheritance: the house came from her father. Then the profession: she was a professor. Then the end: she died in 2019, in care. Then the consequence: with no children or siblings, the house was left full.

The post says the house has been abandoned since between 2015 and 2016. That means Angela left the house some years before she died — she was in care by then, and the house was already empty. Nobody came to clear it. Nobody sold it. It simply stayed as it was, filling up with damp and ivy, while its owner lived out her last years somewhere else.

That is the quiet tragedy at the centre of this house. It was not abandoned in a hurry, and it was not abandoned after a disaster. It was abandoned because the person who lived in it could no longer live in it, and there was nobody else.

When	What the post says
Before 2015	Angela inherits the house from her father; she is a professor
Between 2015 and 2016	The house is left empty and stays empty
2019	Angela dies, living in care at the time
April 2023	The explorer photographs the house and publishes the post

The table uses only the post’s dates. The year Angela inherited the house is not given, and the year she moved into care is not given. What is given is the gap: a house empty since 2015 or 2016, an owner who died in 2019, and an explore in 2023 that found everything still inside.

The Beetle in the garage

The second photograph is the one people remember from this house. In the garage, amid rubble and fallen timber, sits a rusty light-blue VW Beetle. Its paint is blistered and peeling, its headlights are gone, its windscreen is filmed over, and debris is piled on its bonnet. It has been left to rot, in the post’s words — and the photograph shows exactly that.

The post also mentions an old car left by the front of the house, taken over by Mother Nature. The five photographs shown here do not include that second car, so it is mentioned only because the post mentions it, and it is not described further.

A car is the most expensive thing most people own, and leaving one in a garage is a decision — or the absence of one. The Beetle was not sold, not scrapped, not passed on. Like the house, it stayed where it was, because there was nobody to move it. In a way, the car is the whole story in miniature: a useful, valuable thing, left behind because its owner could not come back for it and nobody else did.

Books, typewriters and a fireplace gone cold

The rest of the photographs show what Angela kept. The living room has two dusty armchairs, red curtains, exposed beams, and a typewriter sitting among the clutter. The fourth photograph is a close-up of that typewriter — or another one like it — rusty and caked in mould, with a book beside it called “Myths of Babylonia & Assyria” and a red book holding an old photograph.

A professor’s house should have books, and this one does. The typewriter is the kind of object that dates a working life: Angela wrote on a machine, not a laptop, and the machine stayed on the desk when she left. The book beside it, about the myths of Babylonia and Assyria, is the kind of book a professor of the humanities might own. None of this is proof of her subject — the post does not say what she taught — but it fits the shape of an academic life: books, a typewriter, a house full of paper.

The fifth photograph shows the stone fireplace, its range hood rusted, its beams blackened, a doorway broken beside it. A fireplace is the warm centre of a cottage, and this one is cold and derelict. The post says that looking around, you could tell that before it was left abandoned it was a nice house. The fireplace is the evidence for that: solid stone, well built, the kind of thing that was once the pride of the room.

The creepy vibe the explorer mentions

The post is honest about the atmosphere. The explorer writes that there was a bit of a creepy vibe, and that some unexplained noises were heard while taking photos of the derelict home. He does not say what the noises were, and this article does not guess. Unexplained noises in an old house have ordinary explanations — wind, animals, settling timber — and the post does not claim anything more than that the noises were heard.

But the feeling is worth recording, because it is part of the explore. An empty house full of one dead woman’s possessions is an eerie place to stand in, especially when the possessions are as personal as books and photographs. The explorer’s reaction is his own, and it is reported here as his own.

What we do not know

The post does not give the house’s location, Angela’s surname, the subject she taught, or the year she inherited the house. It does not say what has happened to the house since April 2023, whether it has been sold, cleared, or left to decay further. The “creepy vibe” and the noises are the explorer’s experience, not verified facts.

For a contrast with a house that is lived in and on the market, see a lived-in 1902 home in Alexandria, Minnesota. A lived-in house for sale is a different thing from an abandoned one: the first has an owner and a price, the second has neither. More houses in this condition are gathered in abandoned houses, and the site’s front page is abandoned.blog.

FAQ

Where is the Professor’s House?

No location is given in the post, and none is given here.

Who was Angela?

The post says she was a professor who inherited the house from her father. No surname or subject is given.

When did she die?

According to the post, she died in 2019, and was living in care at the time.

How long has the house been empty?

The post says it has been abandoned since between 2015 and 2016.

Why was nothing cleared out?

The post says Angela had no children or siblings, and the property was left full of her possessions. No further explanation is given.

What is still inside?

According to the post and the photographs: books, a typewriter, furniture, a fireplace, and a VW Beetle in the garage.

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. The account of the house and Angela is as reported in the source post and has not been independently verified.

Photos

Photos by Luke2Explore, via the original Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/Luke2Explore/posts/hidden-amongst-over-grown-trees-and-mother-nature-lies-the-abandoned-professors-/614680057364353/ — 5 of the 46 photos are shown here.