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When I was around 9 years old, my dad bought some property and built a small barn for our horses. It came with a small abandoned house on the edge of the lot. I was told to stay out of the house. So, when I was looking around in the house, I found a bunch of old radios from the 1920's thru the 1950's, just sitting around on cabinets, etc. The windows were busted out, and the roof was collapsing. I shouldn't have been in the place. I was a tube scavenger even then, so I got lots of old tubes. This was during my 'rip and destroy' period before I began to conserve antique electronics.
There was a large collie that lived close to this property. This dog used to bark at grass growing, and its owner liked it that way.
One day, we came to feed the horses, and there was no dog barking. This went on for several weeks. No dog.
I was doing one of my walks thru the abandoned house, when I noticed that something had been moved in the floor. It was an old mattress. I moved the mattress and found the dead collie. I ran. I never went back in the house. About a week later, the house burned. It was arson. My dad was called by the fire department, and we went to the scene. It was collapsing as we arrived. I told the firemen about finding the dog inside a few days before this. I caught hell from my parents about disobeying them. BUT, I still have a bunch of the globe type tubes found in the radios in that house. Lots of DeForest, and Cunningham tubes.
I still think that someone was covering up something done wrong in that house.
We still own the property. There is no barn and no horses there anymore. There is a nice car repair building on the site now. My dad is gone, now, so this belongs to me and my mom.
How did I miss this topic? It's very interesting!!
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