Urban Exploration Photographer Finds a Stash of Cash in an Abandoned House

Freaktography is a website devoted to the exploration and photography of abandoned places. Interestingly the site began with an abandoned house in Niagara on the Lake, my town. Freaktography started with photographs of small derelict houses in Southern Ontario and moved on to large deserted industrial sites, abandoned hospitals, and insane asylums around the USA. In January 2014 Dave, the photographer, visited an abandoned house that he had heard about from a friend. It contained many antiques and memorabilia. Among the debris he found a yellow Home Hardware bag that was filled with $7,000 in old US and Canadian currency.

Dave could have kept the money but he operates by the urban exploration principle, “take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints” so he tracked down the granddaughter of the former owners who told him that the money was likely collected over decades by her grandparents from a fruit stand they owned. This is a good story made even more interesting because I suspect this house is in my neck of the woods.



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