Good stuff.
Freeman -
Yeah its a big problem finding places that are completely abandoned and aren't owned by somebody. You have to tread lightly sometimes for that very reason! Good story though. There's something cathartic about shooting out lights and breaking windows in an old building....not that I'd do that or anything
girldetective-
Hahaha, I had something similar happen in an cabin I was wandering around in only it was the staircase that fell out from under me and left me hanging from the top step like I was doing chin ups!
The old Victorian house sounds bizarre! I'd love to stumble on something like that.
When I was growing up my family shared a small camp on a lake with other family members. It was on an old logging road that had been sold off to the public so the surrounding woods were full of decaying logging equipment, and the lake full of old logs and sunken boats (from log drives). However the most interesting thing I stumbled on was an old cabin about a mile out into the woods. It had one window and a door, the outside was covered in tar paper but the strangest part was when you looked into the window the structure itself had been built around an old bus! The bus hadn't been gutted, the seats were still intact and it showed now signs of ever being lived in. To this day I still can't figure out why somebody would park a bus in the middle of the woods (or how they got it that deep in the woods for that matter) and build a wooden cabin around it. One of the strangest things I've ever encountered.