TheRainbowegoSweet007
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Jun 21, 2026 5:52 AM
TheRainbowegoSweet007
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Martellus
That's a really big yard. I wonder if she was solely responsible for maintaining it.
NoUserNameIsTaken
The grass was greener...
Munchman347
'It's not in Kansas anymore...'
TungstenOrbital
RenaissanceFaireMan
Any context?
yesdearmetoo
I hate to see old homes vanish.
TheResolver
Maybe she's doing time for putting a kid in a pen in the yard and not watching it...
KAPTKipper
Rundown? more like Runaway
subparsubpoena
Well, her head is on backwards, so the house was probably haunted https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dWcyM3h5NzIxMXpuYWM2cDcwcW5paGJ4cWt4cTIwM2o0Y2ZicjhsOSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/hToDOKC4aSLtZrhj5e/200w.webp
10yearslurking
I'd bet that house got moved to a historic district vs just bulldozed.
Berserk7891
this the american dream i've been hearing so much about?
spitfires2000
"There's a crazy old woman smashing bottles on the sidewalk where her house burnt down two years ago. People say that back then she really wasn't that crazy..." - Susan's House (Eels)
the3th
TheRainbowegoSweet007
degenerateloser
I think what that land needs is a nice parking lot. š¤ šŗšø
BallsLikeWatermelonsPeckerLikeAThimble
My childhood home was knocked down a long time ago. In fairness, it was a shithole. Fuckin coal heat for gods sake.
averagebrainfarmer
Last time I went by my first apartment building it was a gravel lot.
guitarfourtysix
I recall renting a place that had Knob and Tube electric. The power was updated, but the old stuff was sill there.
TheShoggothOfMosquitoCreek
My childhood home is overgrown with trees and weeds, and being retaken by the land. We had a wood stove for heat. Middle of absolute nowhere Tennessee. It's not even *on* Google street view. I found it on some YouTube video a tourist through Appalachia posted.
CedricDur
There was probably a mild gust of wind and the house was blown away like a leaf.
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
Nexus297
That was my thought too
htapoicoS
stayme
Still one of the best intros everl
Noahbalboa82
Strange how the tree and sidewalk in the far upper right disappeared too
Astramancer
The sidewalk (looks like driveway) is still there. Look at the utility poles in both pictures, you can see hints of the pavement just in front of it. It's just a shallower angle so it's harder to see. The tree is gone though. On the bright side, the other tree in the foreground of the house that driveway serves got much bigger.
Noahbalboa82
Well look at that, good eyes
SeniorCheesecake
Looks like the car stole the color as well.
thegarts
Hopefully the house was just moved and not demolished.
lifeisadadjoke
Was that a grave, a playpen, or a dog enclosure? I'm thinking "yes".
mikeatike
Halloween decoration?
CallMeMcGyver
It's one of those holy Mary 1/2 bathtub statues inside a dog enclosure... possibly a playpen too... or it's one of those possessed demon dogs who is only kept at bay and confined by the consecrated statue... which could explain why the house is gone...
msvdopro
Thatās called a āBathtub Madonnaā in our neck of the woods. I bought a house with one, but my wife wouldnāt let me keep it. We had to pay to get rid of the cast iron tub, but the statue is still stored away in our basement.
AnonymMaker
Looks like a kid in dog costume in an extremely small confinement
AzazelOmega
Hoping nothing bad happened to that woman, but Iām all for bringing the world back to a natural place. Covid didnāt do enough
TheMayorOfTittyCity
based on the house I once lived in that looks almost identical I'm guessing it was built around 1900 and was a total piece of shit
RocknRootRanchcuzallwegotisrocksandrootsandafewtrees
The Google car went by a few weeks ago. I wish they'd let us know. We'd have tidied up a bit, lol. We're in the midst of residing the house and we had stuff EVERYWHERE out front.
TeelMoobeel
the Earth Abides
Corrodias
Yeah, that happens. People move, sell property. Old structures sometimes get removed in preparation for new construction or other types of land use.
LangleyofMappe
Doesn't make it any less sad.
Fanner50
Even disappeared some sidewalk
CallMeCourierSix
So knowledgeable!
Except, it was a solid looking house. And nothing was built afterward. And none of the other houses were torn down.
You don't have all the answers, so stop pretending you do.
urusername2
She might have died. But then I am still sad.
htapoicoS
Looks like this type of land use is dog park
fluxfusion3
Progress.
Samthetrue
My favorite type of neighbors.
SortaSordid
Sadly she did not get the memo about never making eye contact with Google Street View drivers. They don't fuck around, they didn't just disappear that woman, they disappeared the entire house.
htapoicoS
"Did that woman just wave us? Get ze flammenwerfer, Google-employed Hans"
TheDildoOfConsequences
Nope.
brownribbon
What?
TheDildoOfConsequences
Aha, I should probably apologise. :) It's an oblique film reference to the film "Nope" (2022), where eye contact is... significant, but I can't say more without spoilerising it horribly. Brilliant movie though, totally recommended if you're okay with a couple of brief gruesome bits.
weidermeijer
Google got rid of āDonāt be evilā.
bbrown1012
My dad was standing inside the door on Google Maps. And heās on Zillow in the side yard. He has passed, so itās nice I have those pictures.
Snezko
damn 2016 was vibrant af, 2026 just looks like a depressing post-apocalypse place...
KerryCoder
Yeah. Did... did you not notice?
fdlFan
Yeah, the fact that saturation is cranked up to 11 on the 2016 photo might have something to do with that.
Corrodias
I'm pretty sure 2016 just looked like that. I remember it that way. š
or0b0ur0s
Somebody would be incredibly grateful to have that affordable-looking little house by now. If all that land belongs to the parcel, someone could've broken it up to house more people. I wonder why it's sitting empty long enough for grass to grow back over the foundation scar?
morrighan42
Looking at the area around it, my first guess is that cute little area is in a dying town in the middle of BFN that no one wants to move to. As to why not break it up and build dense housing - look at the other homes you see. Most likely zoned to require a set lot size per home. Could be that a neighbor bought it to extend their yard and hasn't built the pool or whatever yet, or there's something wrong that we can't see underground. Lots of reasons for this to happen.
paeches
investors inveating. maybe not enough demand to split and develop to sell yet. when there is enough demand, you bet it'll be grossly overpriced for the quality...but people will buy new/done over "needa tlc/time"
morrighan42
Highly doubt it, investors don't care about places that aren't showing increased growth and nothing in these photos says real estate boom town. Plus it's highly unlikely that they can split the property, many rural areas have minimum lot sizes to keep out dense housing.
or0b0ur0s
I guess that last part will take a little while to change. I've whinged and wrung my hands over my century-old place's constant upkeep & "charmingly" worn aesthetic... but none of it was really major or 5-figure expensive. I'll take that over the ultra-cheap BS they're using to build McMansions these days.