Unusual Places You Have Lived

rosanne · #1 10-12-2009, 08:51 PM

I once lived in a house that had a secret room. You went to the back of a walk-in closet, got down on your knees, moved a panel in the wall, and crawled through to a room about 9'x12' with wall-to-wall carpeting but no windows. No way at all to know of the existence of this room unless you went through that process.

I've also lived on a barge, on a house boat, in an abandoned building etc.

How about you? Have you lived any unusual places?

LaklandBass · #2 10-12-2009, 08:52 PM

Nope, but i always wanted a secret room like you mention

rosanne · #3 10-12-2009, 08:54 PM

It was a cool room, and the thing I liked most about that house!

Revvv · #4 10-12-2009, 08:56 PM

I currently live in Lincolnton, GA. It gets no more unusual. Crazy people.

IconBasser · #5 10-12-2009, 09:08 PM

wait until bmc gets here. He's lived all over the world.

John Bigboote · #6 10-12-2009, 09:10 PM

I was going to say Tokyo, but at any given time there were 16 million other people living there, so I guess it wasn't *too* unusual...

-jb

jonathan_matos5 · #7 10-12-2009, 09:21 PM

a van down by the river.

ok it was a camping trip but i did sleep in a van parked by a river

funkalicious101 · #8 10-12-2009, 09:30 PM

Edmonton.

Wait, no.

Kirkowitz · #9 10-12-2009, 09:36 PM

I lived in an old horse trailer converted to living quarters on the outskirts of Cedar City, Utah and more hotel rooms than I care to mention....

TOOL460002 · #10 10-13-2009, 12:27 AM

2000 acre company compound in lagos nigeria. it didnt seem odd at the time, given that i was young; not sure why that is. at least we got off school for an attempted coup on the government. that was way cooler than fire drills.

MadMan118 · #11 10-13-2009, 12:36 AM

Lived in Barrow, AK until my sophomore year or high school. Its the northern-most place in the United States. And its 50 below and dark half the year.

6jase5 · #12 10-13-2009, 12:54 AM

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I once lived in a house that had a secret room. You went to the back of a walk-in closet, got down on your knees, moved a panel in the wall, and crawled through to a room about 9'x12' with wall-to-wall carpeting but no windows. No way at all to know of the existence of this room unless you went through that process.

I saw that movie, Cusack was great.

bmc · #13 10-13-2009, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by IconBasser

wait until bmc gets here. He's lived all over the world.

In the unusual category, the high arctic and the middle east could fit there.

Friends of ours live in a house built in 1083. They are the third family to own it. Until nine years ago, it remained in two families for 1074 years, handed down from gerneration to generation. It sat vacant for 200 years. It's a an old chateau with about 30% of it restored. The rest is in rough shape. The have found hidden rooms between floors.

Both of them have seen and continue to see the ghost of grey animal. They're not sure if it's a dog or a cat, in the kitchen. It flashes by out of the corner of an eye. They'll see it every odd weeek and then go months without seeing it. Then they'll go through a period of once a week for a month and then nothing. No pattern to it.

Their place is the most unusual place I've stayed at. It's in France, by the way.

Number27 · #14 10-13-2009, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by rosanne

I once lived in a house that had a secret room. You went to the back of a walk-in closet, got down on your knees, moved a panel in the wall, and crawled through to a room about 9'x12' with wall-to-wall carpeting but no windows. No way at all to know of the existence of this room unless you went through that process.

that is soo cool!

iamlowsound · #15 10-13-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by bmc

In the unusual category, the high arctic and the middle east could fit there.

Friends of ours live in a house built in 1083. They are the third family to own it. Until nine years ago, it remained in two families for 1074 years, handed down from gerneration to generation. It sat vacant for 200 years. It's a an old chateau with about 30% of it restored. The rest is in rough shape. The have found hidden rooms between floors.

Both of them have seen and continue to see the ghost of grey animal. They're not sure if it's a dog or a cat, in the kitchen. It flashes by out of the corner of an eye. They'll see it every odd weeek and then go months without seeing it. Then they'll go through a period of once a week for a month and then nothing. No pattern to it.

Their place is the most unusual place I've stayed at. It's in France, by the way.

That house sounds awesome.

lowsound

Anthbass · #16 10-13-2009, 04:04 PM

I lived in a slum in Uganda, outside the capital city of Kampala for about 4 months in 2004. I also lived in Stuart, Florida for a year in the 90s (not implying that these two were similar in any way). In 1998, I lived in the housing unit of a friend who was attending a techncal institute in Lulea, Sweden. I had to hide whenever his girlfriend came over (several times, daily, don't ask). I also lived with an old Bosnian couple in Doboj, neither of whom spoke any English. She was a devout Muslim and prayed several times a day. He didn't say much and just sat on the lawn, smoking, and looking at the sky. That was a long month. There are others, I'm sure.

MatticusMania · #17 10-13-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Anthbass

In 1998, I lived in the housing unit of a friend who was attending a techncal institute in Lulea, Sweden. I had to hide whenever his girlfriend came over (several times, daily, don't ask).

I know you said not to, but I'm SO curious...

Indiana Mike · #18 10-13-2009, 08:00 PM

Fresh out of a marriage , I married the same woman twice, don't ever do that, I moved in a house with an old army buddy , a reformed convict from California and the alcoholic owner who owned a bar and bragged how he could drink 37 beers in one evening.

It was a really nice house that the alkies mother had purchased for him in a very pleasant part of Gig Harbor Washington.

My room was the worst , it was small , about 6 X 6 feet( not a bedroom ) and had a sliding door that lead directly into a dog kennel that contained an isolated and mentally unstable Rottwieler that would bark at me incessantly .I'm sure he saw steak when he looked at me .

This went on for weeks.

One day, after many bong hits of hydro, I stared it down and won!

Never barked at me again .

Actually thinking back , those were some of the best times...

I also lived in Korea , in a tent , in the winter , with 15 other people.

rosanne · #19 10-13-2009, 08:15 PM

Indiana Mike: ROFLMAO!!!

casualmadness · #20 10-13-2009, 10:34 PM

I lived in the middle east for a bit; sleeping on road sides and sand dunes and fighting off camel spiders and scorpions and mortars and bullets. But that isn't unusual at all in this day and age.
I lived in a house for a while that was converted from a jail. It was the county lockup until my grandparents bought it and converted it into a house. They died and it sat vacant for years. After I got out of the military in 2005, my wife and I moved into it and spent a lot of money restoring the place. I started seeing things that didn't quite add up almost immediately.
I won't get into specifics because I don't want to be fodder for the naysayers. Bottom line, I know what I saw and you can't pay me to go in that house now.