Here are preserved clothing, equipment, bedding and foodstuffs, all arranged on the shelves as though the original occupants have just popped out for a spot of sledging or a quick constitutional.

BBC: In the footsteps of Shackleton

The guy just popped up out of the sand, maybe forty yards straight ahead down at the water's edge.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Assassins Gallery'

We begged them to lock their front doors when they popped out to the shops and admonished them to please not let just any stranger in who rang the outside buzzer claiming he was working in one of the empty units.

CNN: Pistorius, and the psychology of walls