Humanity, a dynamic species always moving and changing, forever evolving and adapting to improve our lives.

And when we move, what we choose to leave behind tells a story that reaches through time to connect us to

brighter futures, or sometimes a deep and terrible past.

I am an urban explorer and last year I found this video in an abandoned house in rural Northern California

To this day I haven't the slightest idea what to make of this footage

But whatever is on this tape makes my skin crawl and my make my

skin crawl and stomach clench.

I keep telling myself that my eyes are playing tricks for me

or that is an error in the footage.

But honestly, I don't have it in me to watch this tape anymore

to find out. I've been over this footage frame by frame, utterly consumed, and unless I tell this story, I feel like I'll never have peace again.

I found the abandoned house my normal way by asking around dive bars and got lucky quickly.

A bartender I spoke to sent me to this large manor house about 30 miles north

but definitely off the beaten path.

Family, infighting about six years ago, prevented the estate from settling and the building

was just sitting there abandoned.

Pretty cool, right?

It took about two hours to get myself to the house and man I wasn't disappointed.

It had everything, old furniture, creepy atmosphere, papers and dishes, the works. The Plantation style The work.

The Plantation-style House looked as though it was built in the early 1900s, with paint-shaped

white pillars flanking a heavy double front door. When I stepped over the threshold, I was immediately struck by how aged everything looked.

It seemed as though the previous owners left in the middle of breakfast and never returned. Dust cake dishes still line the strainer,

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