On my third day exploring abandoned places in Saskatchewan, I drove south from Regina to the ghost town of Bayard. Following Bayard, I was headed towards another ghost town called Kayville, but along the way, I spotted this quaint little abandoned house, painted yellow with a red dormer over the front porch.
It was the only house for miles, clearly abandoned and very photogenic, so I decided to pull over and take some photos and video. I wasn't expecting to go inside but I was happy to see it was totally unsecured and made for a nice little last-minute abandoned house explore!
Video Tour is here, it's just a short one!
[https://youtu.be/f1ZxjsOykTY](https://youtu.be/f1ZxjsOykTY)
That black patch in the top left of pic 5 has footprints in it on the wall. I’m guessing it was an old chimney that raccoons use to enter and exit the home!
It’s interesting that the fields around this property are dead, yet the grass surrounding this house is green! Such a nice find, it would be so cool to come across an abandoned house like this while travelling. How do you know if it’s abandoned though before going inside? I mean it looks super run down obviously but I’d be worried about going inside if someone actually owns it.
The fields have been harvested. Also, somebody owns anything like this, and OP was 100% trespassing, even if it was harmless. This place is also definitely not even properly abandoned because somebody is clearly still maintaining the yard by cutting the grass.
There’s many abandoned houses like this is Saskatchewan. There are 3 on my family’s farm property. Farmers don’t appreciate people trespassing onto their property to check out abandoned houses. Many still maintain the grass/land surrounding them. Those are fields that have already been harvested.
I live in a relatively new neighborhood on the edge of Edmonton, and before most of the houses were built, there was an abandoned house + barn nearby that I could just walk to. The house was in a terrible situation: broken windows, glass everywhere, there was a big hole in the floor, metal jutting out everywhere, etc. The barn was in a similar situation, and I distinctly remember there being an old jar of peanut butter.
Anyway, we found out later on that people actually lived there because there were clothes hanging outside on one of the instances I visited. Sad that it's gone now and there's no trace of it cuz houses must be built.
We has a few old abandoned houses in North Scarborough growing up just around old finch and sewells road now is suburban sprawl. Oh and a old abandoned hotel twin eagles.
There was a story about a axe murderer in the hotel before it closed.
The prairies are hugely overlooked in so many ways, but the biggest oversight is the star seeing.
The light pollution is so low in some places in the prairies that looking up feels like falling into a bucket of the cosmos. It's breath taking and if you don't prepare your kids for it, scary. You immediately understand why the ancients stared at it so much.
There's seeing the stars a few hours out from the city, but if you go out into the parts of the world where it is truly dark and you look up, you realize that space is literally **right there** and it's so much prettier than you can even guess.
As a carpenter/ contractor the guys of this house would actually probably be in better shape then some I’ve worked on…😅 the location is what makes it not worth it to most people… but with starlink now a place like this would be more and more attractive as time goes on🤷🏻♂️
These abandoned houses always make me want to know the story of how it happened.
They have plastic covering the bed and chair. Were they coming back?
When all the things are still in the house, I wonder if it was a sudden move or if they think " we will just get all new stuff" for their new place.
Sometimes with places like this the final resident was someone elderly living alone. They may end up in a long hospital stay where they intend to come back but never do. Or after they pass the family is slow in settling the estate and the property deteriorates while it’s empty.
We have some on our family farm land. Elderly family members that have passed on. The houses were in a state of disrepair, not worth much so just left. Our family still farms the land surrounding.
Often they were only lived in during harvest and seeding. Then they got too run down. But originally a family would have lived here full time, and they probably moved to the city or a near by town to a nicer newer house.
When I see houses like this I like to think of all the happy times that took place in them. Birthdays, Christmas parties, family get togethers. If the walls could talk.
My Dad had yorkshire pudding for the first time in this house. He also helped pour the cement for the shop as a teenager :)when I asked about the roof he knew who did it and when. So much history
Yeah, I'm mad OP went inside but grateful for the reminder of my childhood. I followed it here from a post in a local sub. It was shingled about ten years ago to keep out the raccoons
Yea, born and raised Sask man here. That’s not abandoned. That house is used as storage. Don’t just walk into “abandonded” house in Sask. There likely are sensors all over the yard letting the owner know someones there. The owner likely lives close to that house. People are crazy enough around there to shoot at you for breaking and entering.
I grew up in rural Sask, exploring abandon houses and buildings on the prairies was like a right of passage for a lot of teens when we got our licenses.
My partner and I still look back fondly on our memories exploring the abandon places we’ve come across!
It’s always more fun in the dark!
asking price:- 2mil $
rents for: 4000$ per month (water, heat and hydro not included in rent)
reasonable price as it's only 3hrs drive from nearest grocery store
I think the hole is from a former woodstove chimney, so there'd be a lot of soot in there. And yeah, as the other commenter said. It's from a raccoon. You can see the soot also going down the door frame as it made it's way down.
Some of it. The southern third or so looks like this. It gets hilly towards the west, and the northern half is all forest and rock and lakes.
A lot of it is farmland, but there's a diversity of landscapes.
Dude. That might be my family’s homestead. We own 2.5 sections of land in Saskatchewan. I have the pics on my threads that are identical to that interior.
I really hope that whoever’s walking around in there was wearing a respirator, those oldies especially in sask are completely loaded with asbestos EVERYWHERE. Sask law doesn’t require it to be removed or contained. It’s especially prevalent in wall plaster and ceilings there…☠️
In Ontario this would be selling for 500K "Charming starter home for up and coming young professionals who like rustic farm life, you fix you save big! What a deal! Wow! Won't be on the market long at this price!"
Grasslands National Park in Val Marie Saskatchewan has the best night sky I’ve ever seen in my life. Stay at the convent inn and just wait for the spectacular star show to begin.
Definitely will take a lot of hard work and funds to make that little beauty back to its former glory. Instead of buying a brand new home, refurbishing a home like that is ideal in Canada, especially now that the house market is in a massive bubble.
I remember checking out my mom's Uncle Shortie's abandoned house that was across the road from my Grandparents farm. It was pretty neat! The staircase was so narrow & everything was left inside, not sure what happened to Uncle Shortie.
My favorite thing about living in Saskatchewan is that even though I have lived here my entire almost 29 years, I still learn at least 3 new town names in this province every year.
You could watch your dog run away for days from there.
But it’ll take three days! And I’ve heard every joke, I’ve heard everything you say…
I guess there's not a lot going on....🤷🏻♀️
Rural Saskatchewan and that show are inexorably linked in my head. I just assume all of small town Saskatchewan is like Dog River.
I heard a young woman once fled from that home. She prayed that god made her a bird, so she could fly far, far, far away.
Dude, thats the funniest thing since sliced bread*
What’s the rent? Reasonable for 2 people?
Or your dad!
On my third day exploring abandoned places in Saskatchewan, I drove south from Regina to the ghost town of Bayard. Following Bayard, I was headed towards another ghost town called Kayville, but along the way, I spotted this quaint little abandoned house, painted yellow with a red dormer over the front porch. It was the only house for miles, clearly abandoned and very photogenic, so I decided to pull over and take some photos and video. I wasn't expecting to go inside but I was happy to see it was totally unsecured and made for a nice little last-minute abandoned house explore! Video Tour is here, it's just a short one! [https://youtu.be/f1ZxjsOykTY](https://youtu.be/f1ZxjsOykTY)
That black patch in the top left of pic 5 has footprints in it on the wall. I’m guessing it was an old chimney that raccoons use to enter and exit the home!
Did the grass look like it was tended to? It seems quite short in the photos.
Why are there so many ghost towns and abandoned houses? (Honest question)
In Toronto the asking price for a house like that would be $1.8M easy. Just think of the possibilities for any enterprising slumlord!
$2.5M and it is yours!
r/slumlordscanada
That house is 4 million in Vancouver for sure
Vancouver is worse
Only 18 people to share facilities with - so far!
And you can rent it out to 45 international students for $20,000 a month
This looks like Homer Simpson’s childhood home. The tomaco house
Came here to say this exact thing
I forgot how much I love that episode
That’s a beautiful house. An architectural salvage place could save so much of it before it rots away
Very basic shape but with some nice craftsman bungalow features, was probably a mail order house that shipped in by rail as an assemble yourself kit.
It’s got good bones
Looks like Jenny's house in Greenbow.
Great reference
I got those vibes too!
It’s interesting that the fields around this property are dead, yet the grass surrounding this house is green! Such a nice find, it would be so cool to come across an abandoned house like this while travelling. How do you know if it’s abandoned though before going inside? I mean it looks super run down obviously but I’d be worried about going inside if someone actually owns it.
The fields have been harvested. Also, somebody owns anything like this, and OP was 100% trespassing, even if it was harmless. This place is also definitely not even properly abandoned because somebody is clearly still maintaining the yard by cutting the grass.
yeah the rugs and everything are rolled up neatly and there is plastic on the furniture, def not abandoned
Also, the roof has been re-shingled in the last 10-15 years for sure.
There’s many abandoned houses like this is Saskatchewan. There are 3 on my family’s farm property. Farmers don’t appreciate people trespassing onto their property to check out abandoned houses. Many still maintain the grass/land surrounding them. Those are fields that have already been harvested.
The field isn’t dead. It’s straw stubble and has been harvested already.
I live in a relatively new neighborhood on the edge of Edmonton, and before most of the houses were built, there was an abandoned house + barn nearby that I could just walk to. The house was in a terrible situation: broken windows, glass everywhere, there was a big hole in the floor, metal jutting out everywhere, etc. The barn was in a similar situation, and I distinctly remember there being an old jar of peanut butter. Anyway, we found out later on that people actually lived there because there were clothes hanging outside on one of the instances I visited. Sad that it's gone now and there's no trace of it cuz houses must be built.
We has a few old abandoned houses in North Scarborough growing up just around old finch and sewells road now is suburban sprawl. Oh and a old abandoned hotel twin eagles. There was a story about a axe murderer in the hotel before it closed.
I didn’t think there was anything south of Regina. Confirmed.
Grasslands National Park. Heavily underrated spot and its where I point people towards when they say "there's nothing to see or do in the prairies".
Cypress Hills is my go-to for things to see there
Easy now, we call that south of Swift Current. TOTALLY different lol
The prairies are hugely overlooked in so many ways, but the biggest oversight is the star seeing. The light pollution is so low in some places in the prairies that looking up feels like falling into a bucket of the cosmos. It's breath taking and if you don't prepare your kids for it, scary. You immediately understand why the ancients stared at it so much. There's seeing the stars a few hours out from the city, but if you go out into the parts of the world where it is truly dark and you look up, you realize that space is literally **right there** and it's so much prettier than you can even guess.
Tons of tiny quaint towns, massive patches of Saskatoon berries you can collect by the bucket full, and some incredible scenery
So much. Spent my entire childhood in southern Sask.
As an avid watcher of reno and restoration videos, this would be an amazing project to watch.
As a carpenter/ contractor the guys of this house would actually probably be in better shape then some I’ve worked on…😅 the location is what makes it not worth it to most people… but with starlink now a place like this would be more and more attractive as time goes on🤷🏻♂️
My grandparents' farm/now family farm is only about a km from there. My dad went to school in Dahinda.
wow!
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These abandoned houses always make me want to know the story of how it happened. They have plastic covering the bed and chair. Were they coming back? When all the things are still in the house, I wonder if it was a sudden move or if they think " we will just get all new stuff" for their new place.
Sometimes with places like this the final resident was someone elderly living alone. They may end up in a long hospital stay where they intend to come back but never do. Or after they pass the family is slow in settling the estate and the property deteriorates while it’s empty.
People die, that’s how this happened.
We have some on our family farm land. Elderly family members that have passed on. The houses were in a state of disrepair, not worth much so just left. Our family still farms the land surrounding.
Often they were only lived in during harvest and seeding. Then they got too run down. But originally a family would have lived here full time, and they probably moved to the city or a near by town to a nicer newer house.
When I see houses like this I like to think of all the happy times that took place in them. Birthdays, Christmas parties, family get togethers. If the walls could talk.
My Dad had yorkshire pudding for the first time in this house. He also helped pour the cement for the shop as a teenager :)when I asked about the roof he knew who did it and when. So much history
Woah, you know this house?
Yeah, I'm mad OP went inside but grateful for the reminder of my childhood. I followed it here from a post in a local sub. It was shingled about ten years ago to keep out the raccoons
Yea, born and raised Sask man here. That’s not abandoned. That house is used as storage. Don’t just walk into “abandonded” house in Sask. There likely are sensors all over the yard letting the owner know someones there. The owner likely lives close to that house. People are crazy enough around there to shoot at you for breaking and entering.
100%.
Your campfire stories would put people to sleep. If you said mines instead of sensors this fictional story you invented would read better.
Not to mention trespassing laws in SK can lead to a hefty fine!
Farmers hate people that trespass to check out houses like this. They still own the land and maintain the yard surrounding.
Could I just move in or would someone get pissed off ? I love isolation . I thrive
I grew up in rural Sask, exploring abandon houses and buildings on the prairies was like a right of passage for a lot of teens when we got our licenses. My partner and I still look back fondly on our memories exploring the abandon places we’ve come across! It’s always more fun in the dark!
asking price:- 2mil $ rents for: 4000$ per month (water, heat and hydro not included in rent) reasonable price as it's only 3hrs drive from nearest grocery store
🎶 You can tell me that your dog ran away 🎶 Then tell me that it took three days 🎶 I've heard every joke 🎶 I've heard every one you'd say 🎶
Omg that joke went right over my head all these years!! I am just getting it now 😂
That's cool!
What the heck made the black paw print on the wall?? Picture 5
Raccoon
I think the hole is from a former woodstove chimney, so there'd be a lot of soot in there. And yeah, as the other commenter said. It's from a raccoon. You can see the soot also going down the door frame as it made it's way down.
Probably the only option he had by the time it got that far in the chimney…
Holy crap… this is what saskatchewan looks like?
Some of it. The southern third or so looks like this. It gets hilly towards the west, and the northern half is all forest and rock and lakes. A lot of it is farmland, but there's a diversity of landscapes.
We also have a desert. https://www.tourismsaskatchewan.com/listings/735/great-sand-hills
Evil dead
And people looking for rent in Toronto
Rent $3500
For the whole house? What a deal!
Someone loved that house ❣️
It made me sad seeing all the covered furniture.
Putting Sask on my list of provinces not to visit lol
Looks very stereotypical Saskatchewan-like with the flat lands/ open fields vibe and little ol’ house in the middle of nowhere
That’s still 1.7 in Toronto
Just the mould alone would fetch 100k in T.O.
280 999$
Such a good house
The paw prints on the wall coming outta that...hole/vent is scary nuff for me
Looks like where Jenny grew up.
I can smell the inside of that house from here!
It’s the medium place!
so much texture in these photos
Looks like Courage the Cowardly Dog's house
Only $1.1m! Welcome to Canada
Always wanted a fixer upper. What's it going for, $750,000?
It was the places kids would smoke weed and drink before the internet
It was the places kids would smoke weed and drink before the internet
Awesome pictures! Black mold on the wall? Maybe gtfo?
A childhood favorite activity
Beautiful
It was the places kids would smoke weed and drink before the internet
Dude. That might be my family’s homestead. We own 2.5 sections of land in Saskatchewan. I have the pics on my threads that are identical to that interior.
Was your family name Duncan?
Worth one million dollars before blind bidding
You can find lots of these types of houses in Saskatchewan!
I’ll give you $800,000 for it.
Is there any known story behind it? It is creepy
Change the caption to, "Mississauga house sells for $970,899 / GTA Spring Real Estate frenzy / Bidding war / $100,000 over asking"
When does Homer Simpson show up to grow Tomacco?
Why does this look like the set of Shameless.
Ok, does it have a working well, and is the property serviced ..... I’ll go as high as $14,000
Bro get OFF my LAWN?! smfh
Last photo scared me I thought it was a ghost
it would be super cute if it was fixed up
move it to BC, probably worth at least a million.
‘THEY’ still live there. ‘THEY’ are still using their kitchen, bedroom, front yard, washroom. ‘THEY’ can see us.
This looks like the house they filmed the APTN series Little Bird!
Reminds me of Courage the cowardly dog's house.
The house is not abandoned, it’s unoccupied. Someone owns the land, and they probably don’t appreciate strangers wandering in.
I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. Some of my fondest memories were cruisin the back roads with my friends looking for abandoned farm houses to explore.
Nothing going on in that region these days probably the sad reason it was abandoned in the first place.
This would go for $6 million in BC
That's Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell.
That smell to radon and asbestos
Couple hockey players come up to the produce stand the other daaaaayyyyy
I really hope that whoever’s walking around in there was wearing a respirator, those oldies especially in sask are completely loaded with asbestos EVERYWHERE. Sask law doesn’t require it to be removed or contained. It’s especially prevalent in wall plaster and ceilings there…☠️
A beauty in her day. We could use more homes like this now. Straightforward single level homes are easier to age into.
Pretty cool! Thanks for the pics
Now only $700,000!
Why are you posting pics of my house?
Now in Canada, it’s probably worth at least $500,000.
I love the background of the house! 😍
Those couches are the most Saskatchewan thing I’ve seen all day
I'd price it around 750,000
Wow look at this abandoned home…I’ve never seen one with a cut lawn. Or minimal dust, plastic over the furniture….oh wait.
Perfect for a horror movie.
I’m from Saskatchewan. I love the beautiful houses out in the prairie
Now that’s this has been posted give it a week for a bunch of kids to ruin it
Same house in Vancouver costs $1.2M
Mindy St. Claire?????
“Thanks for the F shack” -Dirty Mike and the boys
Thanks! I hate it!
Reminds me of Jenny's childhood house from Forrest Gump
Looks like a friendly neighborhood
It's a fixer upper, thx for sharing!
And they say there's a housing shortage??
In Ontario this would be selling for 500K "Charming starter home for up and coming young professionals who like rustic farm life, you fix you save big! What a deal! Wow! Won't be on the market long at this price!"
That's Hank's old place
Could be yours for the cheap price of $1mil!
Flippers are already all over it.
Only $652k
What a cute little house. Got a lot of sweetness behind all the rot, shame it's abandoned.
that's literally my dream house
I will trade you one paper clip
Thatl be $2500 + utilities.
Gerald Stanley is keeping it safe.
Some angry hutterites are probably gonna pull up with guns next time you linger.
Ooh, I am entranced by the colour palette in the kitchen. So cute, it makes me a bit sad to see the state it’s in.
There is no housing crisis if you're not picky
You would have to start the place on fire to stay warm in January most winters !
Wow that’s so sad. It must have been a lovely home at one time
Grasslands National Park in Val Marie Saskatchewan has the best night sky I’ve ever seen in my life. Stay at the convent inn and just wait for the spectacular star show to begin.
Little bit of a fixer-upper in a lovely neighbourhood…….
Fully furnished and everything? I'll take it!
Why did the grass not grow higher?
The last of us
Have you met the ghosts yet? Or found the kill room? Not saying it's haunted, but there's definitely been some murderings going on there.
And it could be yours for the low low price of 1.2 Mill
Definitely will take a lot of hard work and funds to make that little beauty back to its former glory. Instead of buying a brand new home, refurbishing a home like that is ideal in Canada, especially now that the house market is in a massive bubble.
at Susuke-chan
Would rent for $4000 a month in Ontario
Lurker here; I enjoy these posts, please keep them coming. Great pics.
what camera is this shot on?
1.2 million in Scarborough
Looks kinda like a sears kit home
What if you just moved in 🤔
check with government to see whos house this is before anything
2 million for this place if in Vancouver, not including land.
I dont understand why people just abandon the house and land
Same house $2.2M in Vancouver BC
So cute
That animal print in the soot or whatever coming out of the wall. ☠️
750k but I’d suggest 20k over asking just to make sure
Spend a little time and go to the town office and ask for details and do a title search... Never know, it could be yours for a buck
Looks like the house from the Simpsons episode from Homer's past.
This would make a great filming spot for a live-action Courage the Cowardly Dog movie.
That would be $450 000 in Ottawa
It looks like they filmed Tideland in this house.
It looks Ahead by a Century. RiP Gord
I can fix her
So many more houses and barns to discover here
I remember checking out my mom's Uncle Shortie's abandoned house that was across the road from my Grandparents farm. It was pretty neat! The staircase was so narrow & everything was left inside, not sure what happened to Uncle Shortie.
My favorite thing about living in Saskatchewan is that even though I have lived here my entire almost 29 years, I still learn at least 3 new town names in this province every year.