This Eerie Abandoned Farmhouse Is Frozen In Time – With Reports On The Titanic Spread Over The Desk

It’s October 2017, and photographer Rebecca gingerly pushes ajar the door of an abandoned farmhouse in the remote countryside of Northern Ireland. She’s not quite sure what to expect, but what she finds completely bowls her over. It’s nothing less than a fully preserved home chronicling life long ago in this part of the U.K. However, as she’s sorting through boxes in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the past, her excitement turns to dread. Immediately, she realizes, the ghostly artifacts in front of her likely should have stayed hidden.

An Unexpected Discovery

Speaking to the News Letter, a Northern Irish website, in July 2018 Rebecca recalled her thoughts as she made her first exploratory visit to the house. “Even though it was messy,” she said, “we could see on shelves and in cupboards that the history in this country cottage was something to get very excited about!” And as she made her way through the cottage, she came across fascinating historical treasures in every room.

Ghosts Of The Past

“Once I took a walk through each room and had a proper look, I was blown away by the historical items that were left here,” Rebecca told the Belfast Telegraph in August 2019. “This literally was the diamond in the rough.” The owner of the house, a neighbor who inherited it after the last man to live there died, asked Rebecca to document a building that was seemingly frozen in time. That final resident was a dairy farmer referred to only as Dessie.

Chilling Yet Warm

Even though the photographs Rebecca took have an undeniably eerie quality, she felt quite comfortable during her visits to the old abandoned home. “Some buildings have very different atmospheres,” she explained. “But I felt welcome in Dessie’s house, which was surprisingly quite warm, even though there hadn’t been any heating in it for a long time.”

Out In The Country

The house is located in rural Northern Ireland, not far from the County Tyrone town of Cookstown. Look at a map and you’ll see that it’s more or less in the middle of Northern Ireland. This constituent nation of the U.K. is in the northern part of the island of Ireland and was created in 1920. To the south lies the much larger territory of the Republic of Ireland, independent from Britain since 1921.