The Abandoned Houses of Facebook

People lived in these places once. What mysteries did they leave behind? Vines crept up the house. It looked like it was about to cave in. The Colonial in Roscoe, N.Y., a hamlet of the Catskills, was decrepit — which made it all the more appealing to Bryan Sansivero, 36, and a friend, who had arrived before dawn. They entered the musty, empty dwelling, which was not really a dwelling because no one dwells there, and sat in the dark for about half an hour until sunrise. Soon, the living room was aglow and its contents revealed: antique furnishings, a… CONTINUE READING…