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So, I have this crate filled with 8x10 prints of my photos and they all need a new home.

Maybe these aren't quite your cup of tea for your walls, but maybe you know someone who worked in a power plant, or someone who loves porcelain dolls, or someone in the funeral industry, someone who collects bird skeletons or loves old records?

Attached here is every photo that I have 8x10 prints of and in each photo caption is the page to purchase that print, the pages also say how many I have in stock.

Change up your walls, add to your room, your man-cave, your she-shed, or surprise a friend of family member with something truly unique!

Flip through to see the selection!

https://freaktography.com/shop

I was recently invited by the new owners to explore and document the historic Stark House in Paisley, Ontario, just one week before renovation work officially began.

The property remained in the Stark family for more than 150 years and sits beside the historic Paisley Mill along the Teeswater River. Inside the home were decades of original contents, furniture, artifacts, and signs of everyday life connected to one of the most important industrial families in the town’s history.

The new owners plan to carefully restore the house while preserving many of its original features and incorporating items left behind by the Stark family into the final renovation.

This video explores the history of the family, the farmhouse, the nearby mill, and the future plans for the property.

VIDEO:
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Abandoned Private Eyes Strip Club

Private Eyes Strip Club in St Catharines Ontario, once known as the Rainbow Inn had long been an eyesore and serious pain point for the people of Niagara on the Lake Ontario. Highway 55, also known as Niagara Stone Road is one of the major routes people take when driving into Niagara on the Lake, one of the nicest towns in the province, in my opinion.

The first thing you would see as you turned onto highway 55 is the Private Eyes Strip club, it had been there for many many years, much to the chagrin of Niagara on the Lake.

Finally, on Sunday October 14th, 2018 Private Eyes closed its doors for the last time. The building was listed for sale with all the equipment and four acres of property, it was listed on MLS for $1.7-million.

Being a strip club, the building came with its share of baggage and controversy, in November of 2007, the owners were been arrested and accused of running a business where sex acts from dancers were up for sale.

Police said the charges related to an investigation officers launched in the spring of 2006 regarding complaints of prostitution at strip clubs in Niagara. Undercover officers visited Private Eyes and reported they found acts of prostitution were going on. Police say the owners were warned three times that year that they would face criminal charges.

Undercover officers were propositioned by dancers in November of 2007 during two visits. Nine dancers faced 12 charges of communicating for the purpose of prostitution, the owners turned themselves into Niagara police and were charged jointly with keeping a common bawdy house and knowingly permitting their Niagara Stone Road business to be used as a common bawdy house.

In February 2016, a verbal altercation between two dancers at Private Eyes Strip Club escalated and resulted in one of them being stabbed. Police said two women got into a fight that escalated to the point where one of them, a 24-year-old, was stabbed and slashed with a knife.

Niagara Regional Police said aggravated assault charges were laid against two dancers, the one who was involved in the stabbing and another who helped her immediately afterwards, making her part of the offence.

The land where Private Eyes once stood is now flattened

Today, we're going back to May 2nd, 2014 and the day I explored the abandoned South Western Regional Centre Psychiatric Hospital in Dealtown, Ontario.

Opened in 1961, the Southwestern Regional Centre was originally named the "Ontario Hospital School for Retarded Children at Cedar Springs". The facility provided long-term care for residents with mental disability, providing capacity relief from the overwhelming demand at the Huronia Centre. It was the last massive institution built in Ontario for the treatment of the mentally disabled.

This institution was originally designed to accommodate children under 10 years old. As the years passed, focus was altered to accommodate the aging population, as residency in those years was considered somewhat permanent.

In 1966 there was a resident population of 1,200 and a staff of 600. By 1979 the resident population had been reduced to 620 as changes in policy and strategy dictated the reassignment of residents back into the community, a philosophy of Community Living originating in the 1950's. Even before the facility opened, the winds of institutionalization were changing. In 1959, the architectural plans were altered for Southwestern, reducing the project from 2,400 to 1,000 beds.

After years of downsizing, the 300 acre facility finally closed in 2008 following the government's decision to move from institutional based services to a fully community based approach.

https://freaktography.com/southwestern-regional-centre-psychiatric-hospital-ontario

It was a cold and snowy winters day when RiddimRyder and I ventured out to this old abandoned farm house.

But as it turned out, we weren't alone - there was a hair in my camera sensor that wanted to make an appearance in almost every one of my photos.

But the weirdness didn't end there, while exploring the main floor of this house and taking photos, there was something much more sinister and haunting going on, as I was being followed by something that haunts this house!

Can you see it?

Video Tour Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIo2NzfYM4c

I am a man of tradition, and I believe in the tradition of celebrating Cinco de Mayo....

Or as i call it

Sinko de Mayo!

Here are a bunch of Abandoned Sinks in Abandoned Places
Ole!

More sinks here!

https://freaktography.com/sinko-de-mayo/

Two abandoned houses within one abandoned house!

This house was crazy, located in a very nice gated community, on a pretty large piece of land sits a crumbling and decaying estate.

RiddimRyder Photography gave me this one and I had seen his pictures so I knew what to expect - at least I thought that I did!

What I didn't know, and what Riddim had missed was one lone door accessible from the garage that would lead me into one of the strangest things I have ever walked into.

Within this large empty and decaying abandoned home sat ANOTHER abandoned house, more like an abandoned apartment - but this one was a time capsule and almost everything was coated in black mold.

Bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom, closets - EVERYTHING was still there. I was truly in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

I was the first to set eyes on this and I really wasn't expecting it, I sent a picture to Riddim and asked if he had seen this, he missed it all together.

Thank god I brought my respirator because anyone wandering through this place without one is just asking to be poisoned!

AND as if this house wasn't weird enough, I was not alone in the house. There was (I think) a Turkey Vulture trapped in the house and he couldn't get out.

I tried my hardest to help him by opening many doors for him but he wouldn't take the bait.

When I left the house I had left 3 or 4 doors open for him to walk into, instead he managed to lock himself in a closet and he died by the following weekend

Lets take a walk through the house and to the discovery of the time capsule apartment in the photos.

https://freaktography.com/abandoned-twilight-zone-time-capsule-mansion

This weekends new abandoned video is, what I think, a former home and daycare.

Wait until you see all the stuffed animals inside!!!!!

Check the video out here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnMwFkD0Whs

Kitchener's Freeport Hospital Abandoned Men's Residence

This building sat abandoned and crumbling for over 20 years on the site of Freeport Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario. It was finally demolished several years ago.

The Freeport Sanitorium originally opened as a military hospital treating tuberculosis patients during the Great War in 1916.

By 1920, the facility had returned to civilian use. Subsequent expansion from 1926 through 1953 saw the construction of nurses residences, doctor’s residence, treatment center, men’s and women’s residences, and other support buildings.

In 1957 with declining patient admissions, Freeport became the first sanatorium in Ontario to initiate chronic-rehabilitative care for non-tubercular patients.

In 1970 the tuberculosis division was closed, however the site remained to provide ongoing health services the the nearby community.

I gave up on trying to find the article that was not behind a paywall, so instead of reading the article, you can watch my video or see the pics on my website

Funny story, these pics were taken in 2018 when there was a board ripped off of a window, within minutes after I left and was walking away the maintenance team pulled up to board the window! I was minutes away from being trapped inside!

https://freaktography.com/abandoned-freeport-hospital-kitchener/

The value of this $9 is actually in the thousands.

How many of you can identify why this is?

The devil is in the details!

Found in an abandoned house in 2019, and yes, I left them there.

This location has been named the Abandoned Star Wars Collectible Toy Mansion and may very well go down as the most impressive, the most valuable and the craziest abandoned mansions I have ever explored!

You can read the whole story and more here:
https://freaktography.com/urban-exploring-abandoned-star-wars-collectible-toy-mansion

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