Golem, obviously.
With the louvered vent in front discharging the carbon filtered air. Could work.
As an aside, I pass a house on my daily commutes with an almost completely sealed window, along one edge of which I could detect intense light. One evening I stopped and knocked. “We don’t know each other, but I gotta tell you there is a small light leak on your side window. If I noticed it, eventually someone else might.” Next time I drove by and forever after that there was no detectable light.
My guess is that they covered over the windows so that the house would have fewer legal bedrooms. The number of bedrooms is a factor in the tax assessment. Fewer bedrooms means a less valuable house and lower property taxes. Property taxes are pretty low on that house already, so they wouldn’t save much, but it’s still my guess. People often do things that don’t make financial sense in order to save on taxes.
That’s where his relatives from Insmouth live.
That place is a damn firetrap, isn’t it?
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You need to stop by and knock again. When they open the door, just kind of clear your throat and hold your hand out.
Not all BDSM dungeons are actually dungeons.
Also my first thought.
Are you missing any neighbors?
If you click on where it says “Street View - Jun 2013” in the upper left you can go back in time to July 2008 when the 2nd floor had windows but the house was in pretty dire shape. Looks like they had a remodel job on the cheap. No budget for windows. Surprised if that actually passes the building code for the town there. Or, grow room/meth lab/sex dungeon/etc.
I didn’t do a close architectural study, but to me it has the look of being something like an old, small ( country ? ) church that has been turned into a residence, including a quick and dirty re-siding/re-roofing. I once lived next to a church (a bit bigger than this), but while it was still a church the bell tower was torn down before it fell down.
“Havin’ all that room, Seein’ as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn’t have to take out their garbage for a long time.”
Check out the Zillow Bird’s Eye view. It looks like the pics are older as the house appears to lack the walls look older and worn and there are definitely second story windows. It looks like when they resided the house they covered up the windows.
Wow - I think that’s the most bizarre thing ABOUT the place!! I can’t imagine covering over windows that did in fact once exist.
Grow-op seems an odd theory because certainly there have got to be ways to adequately mask the light seeping through the windows - plus, it’s not at all strange to have light coming out of windows so who’d see anything amiss? Being on the second floor would keep curious passersby from looking in and seeing something illegal happening.
Y’know, a lot of old windows leak, and it can be expensive to repair the water damage/rot and install new windows. Maybe they just decided to side of the whole mess and prevent any further water penetration instead of shelling out to do it “right”?
Multiple thousand watt high pressure sodium lights throw LIGHT, not light.
If it were near me, I’d say meth.
I thought it persisted in other views, but you might be right.
It was built in 1920 and hasn’t had any transactions in years. I’d say it was built on a street of houses, not a farm, but has never been updated except for this bizarre reskinning.
Er, yeah, I already said that - maybe someday they will cut through the siding and restore the windows. I’ve seen a lot of houses being remodeled on the very slow and cheap this way.
It’s a small town in Georgia. What building code (that applies to 100yo houses probably still in the same family), Kemosabe?
Go to the right and around the corner. Zoom in over the neighbors house. You’ll see the roof is done horribly. There are gaps in the – planking? – And the eves are still not finished. That thing must leak like a sieve when it rains!
I’m going with Smurf’s vampires.
Buy a bunch of 1’ x 1’s the Lowes and cut points on them.
Today.
“Pa, when’s Ma coming back from Mancato…?”
“Don’t worry, Half-Pint… she’ll be back before you know it…”
to me it looks like put a second, metal roof over an existing roof. The horizontal boards you can see is what they screwed the metal roof down to. When I had my house reroofed, they did the same sort of horizontal boards over the existing metal roof because it had been mailed down with 4" nails and would take too long to take up.
Still, probably leaky.
Maybe that’s just attic space and they didn’t want to keep the windows.
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