TikTokkers stunned by ‘unexpected’ discovery inside abandoned store
A pair of mates who randomly stumbled across an abandoned shop on the side of a road in Northern Ireland were shocked to discover what was still left inside.
Jamie Robinson, 24, from Ballyclare, was travelling with his friend Jordan, when the duo came across an abandoned shop that’s been closed for more than 10 years.
After deciding to go inside they were met with trash all over the floor and broken shelves.
However, to their shock and amusement, there were still food tins and drink bottles that appeared to be left untouched.
“So today me and Jordan randomly came across this abandoned shop that has been closed since 2012,” Jamie said in the viral TikTok.
“But look at how much stuff has actually been left since then.”
He walked over to a fridge with several bottles of Diet Coke, Ribena and water — the price list was also visible and stuck to the side of the fridge.
“This place has been abandoned for over 10 years and there’s just so much left still.”
“Even on the floor — like none of this is rubbish at all. It’s full.”
The store, which appeared to be a newsagency, had magazines in tact and while its ceiling and walls were dilapidated, framed advertisements were surprisingly still in good condition.
“We were so surprised by this place,” Jamie said. “For a random one on the side of a road you don’t usually get this much left.”
The boys guessed it was perhaps robbed and destroyed.
“The smokes are gone,” Jamie pointed out as he showed an empty cigarette shelf.
He described the “unexpected” discovery as “very impressive.”
After sharing it to his TikTok and Instagram on Monday, it has been inundated with comments from viewers wondering why the food hadn’t been donated.
“That’s mad [you’d think] they would have given it away or feed the homeless,” one person wrote.
“Why would you leave the Dairy milk & the fruit polos? This bugs me the most,” a second wrote.
A third added: “Yo some of that might still be safe,” with a fourth claiming: “Sadly an eviction and only had limited time to remove goods.”
One person joked: “Taste the milk. It might be still good to go.”
Jamie is known for his abandoned buildings content having racked up almost 4 million ‘likes’ on his TikTok posts alone.
One of his most popular with 4.5 million views is of him investigating an abandoned hospital in Belfast.
“I started TikTok about two-and-a-half years ago,” he told the Belfast Telegraph in November last year.
“During Covid there was nothing else really to do, so I thought we would go out for a bit, and then we found the hospital and it just started from there.”
He said he feels privileged to “bring history back to life” and loves he is able to connect people with their past.
“I would be live and a lot of people will comment ‘that’s the hospital I was born in’, or ‘I had my first child in that hospital’, or ‘you are in the classroom of a certain teacher’,” he told the publication.