The Creepy Side of Eastlake Victorian

I was always intrigued by this image.

Do you see a Victorian woman at her vanity?

Or do you see a skull?

Do you want to see something even scarier than that? Anyès over at The Dusty Victorian recently did a post about her scary basement. Be sure to check out her site! Her basement looked a lot like the basement at Eastlake Victorian, so I thought I'd let you take a peek at ours as well. Follow me...

Here... I'll get the light...

Watch your step. The floors are very uneven...

Watch your head! There are spiders EVERYWHERE!!!

Wait a minute...

All those spiders...

Are DEAD!!!!! Yes, all our basement spiders build their webs all over the place, then promptly die. What does that mean?

And all the windows have been clawed at and chewed. Was some creature once locked down here and tried to escape?

Most of the original structural posts have been replaced, but the house is still sagging in many areas...

This is definitely a basement that can never be living space. The ceilings are much too low!

The floors are cracked, the walls are disintegrating, there's seepage everywhere...

No matter how often we've swept, cleaned, and dusted, we end up with this...

and this...

And, the pièce de résistance...

A room with a toilet. Nothing else, just the toilet. I must say, we've never taken advantage of that toilet, and I don't ever remember even opening the lid. Scary, no?

Well, that concludes our tour of the creepy, disgusting underbelly of Eastlake Victorian. Thanks, Anyès, for the inspiration!

Now, where did my husband go? Last time I saw him, he was in the basement...

Terry!............

Terry?.............