Ever wish you could visit the apocalyptic towns that are written about in dystopian novels?
Well, all you have to do is book a ticket to the town of Horden, which is nestled in England's northeast coast, and you will feel the pages of your favorite apocalyptic fiction come to life.
Walk through this town, and you will get the most surreal feeling as you take in the boarded-up houses and the derelict buildings, all shrouded in an eerie atmosphere that hangs heavy in the air.
In an attempt to mask the dilapidated state of the town, local councils have resorted to the unusual strategy of putting up paintings of fake windows and doors on the houses.
Upon first look, it’s hard to tell which doors and windows are real and which ones are fake
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Now, if you want to save yourself from the effort of traveling to the ghost town yourself, you can just join YouTuber Bald and Bankrupt as he takes his viewers on a stroll through the town of Horden.
As he walks through a particularly deserted part of the town, the YouTuber shows the fake doors and windows that are meant to inject some sense of normalcy into the street and make it look like there’s still some “life” in the area.
“This is so freaky! The council, I suppose to make the place look better, have put these fake windows and fake doors so it doesn’t look totally f-----g derelict and abandoned,” the YouTuber said.
“That’s not a curtain. That’s the picture of a curtain,” the YouTuber exclaimed
In its glory days, Horden was a bustling town that was thriving with a mining community, but it is now home to a deteriorating urban landscape due to the decline of the coal industry.
The YouTuber explained in his video that terraced houses, such as the ones shown in the clip above, were built in the 1800s all over northern England to house miners who flocked to towns like these for work.
“Unfortunately, many of them now are in conditions like these. Look,” he said, pointing towards the ramshackle houses that lined the street.
People online were baffled by the current apocalyptic state of the once-thriving town
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Several people commented on the clip that was shared on TikTok.
“That straight up looks like a movie/TV prop street for something like Dr Who,” one comment said on TikTok, while another added, “Dystopian Britain.. Reminds me of that film, house of wax... Also, ‘netted curtains’.. Designer must have been someone's grandma lol.”
Another wrote, “Think of the people who could make them houses a home.”
“Why don’t they just let people renovate them by giving people like some sort of program,” one person suggested.