poppy Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Fans of Ransom Riggs, the author of Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children and the sequel, may be interested in this video. http://fb-140.dailymegabyte.com/man-explores-old-abandoned-untouched-homes-europe/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I have never read any of Ransom Riggs's books but I did watch the video. The video was interesting. I wonder why the houses were vacated as they are beautiful. My imagination runs wild thinking of how it must have been to live in the houses and in some cases what look like mini-castles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolf woolf Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I liked it; we could have seen more of the houses, though. Hear about their location, and a little history about them. But they were aiming for a trailer, not a documentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Very interesting video! What a shame that these beautiful houses have become ruins. They are still beautiful, but I hope someone is able to restore them one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Thanks poppy.. How interesting, I wonder if there are any places like that in the UK.. I actually found it very sad, where had the people gone, clearly so suddenly in some cases, and was there no family to take on the houses, or at least sell them so they were not left neglected? I'm very much looking forward to September for the third book in the Miss Peregrine series, did I hear a rumour that they were to be made into films? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 You're right, Chalie. What could have caused them to leave so suddenly, and to leave their possessions behind? The rumour is correct! The first movie, at least, is being made into a movie to be released next year. A couple of weeks ago they had only cast a few people, but I just checked IMDB again and it looks like they've now cast most or all of the characters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Yes, that lone suit hanging in the room was very eerie.. And the desk with open correspondence and reading glasses! Thanks for the film info, Samuel L Jackson, wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Interestingly, in a few of the war books I've read this year, I'm most of them had descriptions of houses and even whole villages or towns, that had been abandoned as people have left towns to escape invasions, with clothes left on the washing line, saucepans of food left on stoves, beds unmade … basically, people have had to flee for their lives and leave everything behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 You're right, Chalie. What could have caused them to leave so suddenly, and to leave their possessions behind? In some cases, I guess, the people had just died. I found the old man's shed with all his paints and garden statues that he used to make, the saddest. Although the houses had been trashed in some cases, I was amazed that so mush stuff was still intact in others. I would had thought it would have been stolen or broken after all that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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