A girl explores an abandoned home and gets the shock of her life in the living room. An attractive young woman went to take photos of what she thought was an abandoned home. As she snapped photographs, she decided to take a closer look. Needless to say, what she found in the living room was not what she was expecting. Leslie Moore, an urban explorer and photographer, was on her way home after a long day of exploring on her birthday when a seemingly abandoned red house caught her eye.
Seeing art in the dilapidated structure and overgrown yard, she stopped on a whim to snap a few photos of the mysterious residence. However, she would soon be left in disbelief as she discovered what was inside. Also, if you have not done so already, please subscribe to our channel and click that notification bell to get inspired by these real-life stories every day. Now back to the story. As an urban explorer, Leslie has countless photographs of forgotten places, but this random red house changed her life forever when she least expected it.
Helping herself to someone else’s property, she walked around and took pictures of all the interesting details. That’s when her curiosity led her inside the house where she made her shocking discovery, which no one would have known about had Leslie’s inquisitiveness and maybe even fate not put her in the right place at the right time.
Under her username, the_tourist, on Instagram, Leslie Moyer explained that she had seen this house before and it had always intrigued her for reasons that she wasn’t sure about until she decided to stop one day. Since it looked like it had been deserted for years, she assumed it was abandoned and wasn’t worrying about angering anyone by taking a look. The driveway was overgrown, the roof was caving in, and the interior would lead anyone to believe this line had been deserted.
She explained, “I was driving home, had seen this house a million times, never thought to stop. It was just another abandoned house. For some reason, that day, I did a U-turn in the middle of the road and I got out of my car and started taking pictures of the outside. When I went inside, it was still an abandoned house to me, and it was dark. There was stuff everywhere.
Any sign that you saw would have led you to believe that nobody had lived there. It was an abandoned home. Right there in the living room, Leslie’s life would be forever changed when she heard a quaint hello in the middle of what she thought was an abandoned home. She met Lawrence, who’d been sitting inside alone. This is Lawrence.
He lives in a house I believe to be abandoned,” Leslie wrote alongside a photo she took of him. “I found him in the living room. He has a hard time getting around, so he spends most of his time in there alone,” she added as she began to share his tragic story. Leslie Moyer explained that Lawrence is missing his right eye, and his left isn’t much better off because of severe cataracts. But his ill health hasn’t seemed to hurt his spirit.
Even after noticing a stranger essentially helping themselves to his life, he was nothing but sweet and kind to me,” Leslie recalled, which must have been a relief after realizing the abandoned home she’d entered uninvited and unannounced wasn’t empty at all. “He was even nice enough to let me take his picture, which I always treasure,”
Leslie said. According to Little Things, the photographer stayed and got to know this man over the next three hours, and she was probably the first person he interacted with in months. On her own birthday, she stumbled upon the greatest gift, a new friend. Little did she know, this was only the beginning of something beautiful.
Leslie Moyer had crossed Lawrence’s path at just the right time. Sadly, Lawrence didn’t have a lot of time left. He was dying, and not a single person was around to care or be there for him when he did. He’d mentally prepared himself to leave this life alone since he spent every day that way for years in this hardly inhabitable house. “I heard a radio and a timid hello from the corner, and I met Lawrence.
He looked tired, he looked lonely, he had a fractured hip, he was missing one eye, he was in pretty rough shape. I thought, ‘Here’s your chance to be there for somebody who needs it.’ That is until Leslie came along and vowed to keep him company. Leslie kept her promise, ensuring Lawrence wouldn’t be lonely anymore, and the two have since shared several meals together. They’ve enjoyed even barbecues and outings that neither have ever imagined.
Over the next several weeks after Leslie found Lawrence on that fateful day, she took care of him. But then his health started to rapidly decline. However, Leslie wasn’t about to let Lawrence be abandoned ever again. She helped him move into a retirement home where she continued to visit him often. “He’s safe and warm and seems to be fairly happy to be around some new people, although I knew he misses home,” Leslie wrote of her friend’s move.
Lawrence didn’t have very much longer to live, but at least he’d leave this life feeling loved, only because a stranger decided to stop. “He shared something with me that’ll stay with me forever. He said the day I showed up was the best day of his life,” Leslie wrote, feeling ashamed of sounding self-righteous while also understanding how he feels. “The best day of my life was when I met him. He gave me the chance to really do something for someone, an act of kindness with no expectation of reward.
I’ve been a loner. He brightened my life up. Still does.” It’s really hard to find somebody that you can genuinely trust in this world, someone who’s not going to judge you. He’s made me realize what’s really important.
She’s just a real good friend, a real good young friend. Leslie Moyer concluded that no one takes a picture of something they want to forget. So after meeting Lawrence, she takes his picture as often as possible. “People take pictures of what they care about, of what they’re proud of, of what they want to remember. Nobody takes a picture of something that they want to forget.
So I try to take his picture as often as possible.” Now there are angels to walk among us, and Leslie is one of them. She stopped at the right time to be Lawrence’s family, finding that the house she thought was abandoned wasn’t empty at all, but the man inside was until she stepped in, showing him kindness and love in his last days. No one deserves to be forgotten, and Leslie ensured that Lawrence never will be. If you like the video, please give it a thumbs up and consider sharing it with someone who may find it interesting.
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