Creepy Abandoned House Found in the Georgia Woods With Burned Lumber Inside

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]I'm Robert and this is Adventures into History. So, we're in the woods of West Central Georgia and I got kind of a creepy old abandoned house behind me here that we're going to be taking a look at. So, a little bit of backstory on this. Uh I was told about this place by a fellow that has a hunting lease on this property. Gosh, I don't know, probably two years ago. And uh here it is two years later and I'm just now uh taking a look at it. Uh he gave me a little bit of backstory about this. He said that the house was not very old, but that it was built on this land for the son of whoever owned the land before. And he was a I I just I hear stuff moving in the woods. It's It's giving me the creeps a little bit.

[00:00:46]Anyway, so the the property owner that owned this land, I guess way back when, however old this house is, built this house for his son who had a mental health uh disability and um that son was raised pigs out here and I guess lived in this house until he passed away and then the house went into abandonment. Land got sold and I believe it's like timberland now and it's leased uh for hunting. Uh, like I said, there's a fellow who has a lease on this land.

[00:01:18]Told me about it. Told me it wasn't very old. Told me that backstory and never stopped to look at it before now. So, let's go.

[00:01:28]This house is actually looking a little bit older than I thought it was going to be. It's as bestus siding on it. Now, that's 1950s.

[00:01:39]inside. It looked like there may maybe they reused they probably reused stuff from a different structure when they built this house.

[00:01:48]Wow. The whole wall is just gone right there.

[00:01:56]So, it seems like a very basic structure on a concrete slab and really it's just a shell. Now, that is an old door back there. Man, I don't know what it is. As soon as I came around the corner and stuck my head in the window, I just had a a a shiver run up my spine. I've been in a lot of old houses and not a lot of them give me any kind of spooky feelings. So, it's definitely not very old. Probably 50s, I'd say.

[00:02:30]that would go along with that as best of sighting. And just some reused pieces from some earlier structure.

[00:02:49]Oh, now that's interesting.

[00:02:55]So, like I said earlier, it's on a concrete slab.

[00:03:00]But some of this wood looks like it was what was that?

[00:03:06]Some of this wood looks like it was repurposed from elsewhere. And I have a theory now as to where it may have come from.

[00:03:47]I really, really wish stuff would stop making noise outside.

[00:04:01]So, I think that this house was built using reused materials from a another structure. I think that that's pretty evident, but I I actually am wondering if I know where those reused materials came from. And there's some kind of clues that I'm seeing in some of this wood. um that if that's the case, it's actually going to be really cool. Um we can see that some of the wood is like notched. We can definitely tell it came off of something else that's sistered.

[00:04:32]We also see like some of this wood looks like it's been through a fire. You see that?

[00:04:38]Don't really want to stand under this section, but I'm looking for like saw blade marks on the wood. See if I can see whether it was like mil or when it was mil or something like that. but don't really see anything. The wood in the walls is uh pretty standard for the time. That kind of sighting. This is an old door though. This is another kind of clue.

[00:05:06]This is a This is a very old door.

[00:05:10]So, there's another kind of handle or something that was right there.

[00:05:20]I guess it was just filled in. That's obviously that's old older door handle there. Certainly older than the house.

[00:05:27]Looking to see if this was like um you know like wooden pegs were used for this.

[00:05:47]So, there's another one of those notched pieces right there. But look at that.

[00:05:51]See, that is charred wood right there.

[00:05:53]And I bet that that is going to be a big clue as to where this wood came from.

[00:06:01]Right here, too. You see that? That's charred wood. But let's go back to that piece that went through a fire. I see that went through a fire too up there.

[00:06:13]That went through a fire. And obviously that fire did not happen to this structure. There's no signs that that this was on fire. Uh we can see that pretty evidently by the untouched piece of wood. You know, no fire damage, fire damage, fire damage, no fire damage.

[00:06:31]This wood came from somewhere else. And that I find very interesting because very near here there was a very large Annabellum house that dated back to the 1830s that burned down. I want to say around the 1960s.

[00:06:48]I think that they took the wood, it was on the same tract of land. I think that they took the wood from that house and built this, used it to build this. Um, so I think that that is super interesting.

[00:07:08]So this may be all that's left of that house.

[00:07:18]reused somewhere else. And uh I that that is super cool because it's it's a little connection to that. And I bet that that is where that door came from, too, because where that house used to stand has been completely scraped away for the most part. They obviously demolished it after the fire. And that door looks, you know, right era for that house, too. I was looking to see how it's put together. Sometimes you'll see like pegs in here that really tell you that that's going to be an early built door, but I don't see anything. You see it's heartpine. That's fat lighter.

[00:08:06]But what happened here? I mean, what type of ripping the wall out happened right here? There's a pile of brick there. Maybe there was a wood burning stove or fireplace and someone's obviously thrown it and busted the drywall.

[00:08:22]Well, that was scary. Was a buzzard somewhere around here. Just flew back of the house. More of that as best siding, concrete steps.

[00:08:37]Okay, time to get out of out of these woods. Out of this house. Wait, there's a peg right there. There's a wooden peg for this front door.

[00:08:51]See, that was pegged. But I mean, that's not the type of construction I'm really talking about. Um, earlier that's a that was an old door, too, that somebody just busted busted up.

[00:09:06]this pointless destruction out here that has um uh there there's been a lot of stuff that's happened out in this area that's been not good from uh vandalism like this to uh grave robbing activity uh to people, you know, allegedly in the occult. Um been a lot of a lot of bad stuff that's happened out here. So, um it's in the middle of nowhere today.

[00:09:32]didn't used to be used to be a big community here, but uh by today it's in the middle of nowhere. And even when this house is built, it was getting to be the middle of nowhere. Um so it's a shame that you know people would come in here and bust it up like that.

[00:09:50]And you can see the old deep down ruted driveway that used to run in front of this place. Two big old ruts there. All right, folks. Uh, hope you enjoyed seeing this house. Not not a very old structure, obviously, but using some old wood that I think came from an 1830s house that burned down in the '60s that was right down the road. So, I think that that kind of history there is pretty neat. And then, of course, the history of how the fella uh came to live out here um his family built in this house. And uh and I guess it was just, you know, one owner. um and went into abandonment.

[00:10:32]Neat little place. No, no plumbing inside, so it would have just been no water either. So, there must be a well and an outhouse around here, too. I don't know if that house down there was occupied. I wonder if he was living in that one when it burned down and that's why they built this one. It's interesting. Um I don't know. Hope you guys enjoyed. Uh I'm going to get out of these woods. They're kind of, you know, a little bit spooky now. So, uh we'll see you on the next one.