Abandoned Places

[Chiller]

These are nothing spectacular, but I was out abandoned house hunting and came across this one. I was armed with cams, and a flashlight. I found a small hole that somebody had kicked in, and ventured inside. The lighting was....well...nothing. So I fired up the flashlight, and poked around. The images I took here were not composed at all, and I just set the cam on auto, popped the flash, and fired away.
A view of the kitchen.

Making my way through the kitchen, I found myself in the living room. Things started to get a little freaky here, as there was a banging noise on the outside wall. The house is surrounded by large trees, and I just took it as a tree limb hitting the wall. I gathered up a few of the slides, and will try to scan them. Not sure what the white powder is. :er::er:

To get to the next part of the house I had to find the hall. As I rounded the corner and entered it, the flashlight burned out. Just my luck. In a dark house, and no light, so I fired my flash every few feet, to make my way back to the kitchen. Tried the flashlight again, and it worked, so I went back to the hallway. As soon as I got there, the flashlight burned out again. So....back to the kitchen I went, but as I left the living room, I fired a shot back towards the front door. I have no idea what the shadow is on the wall, as I did not have any filters, or hoods on the cam. There was nothing in the hallway, or I would have walked into it but Im sure when I can get back in here next weekend, I will see what it is.

This is another shot of the living room as I was leaving. There is nothing in that door that could make a shadow but Im sure there is some explanation.

I was out of there, till next time, but snapped this one on the way out. The colour the old sock, and the floor made me laugh. :lmao:

 

[Artograph]

Cool.....and just a little bit FREAKY Chill!!!! Woohoooo!

 

[Chiller]

Cool.....and just a little bit FREAKY Chill!!!! Woohoooo!

I hope to be getting my arse back in there this weekend, if weather allows me. Will take a flashlight that is ghost proof. :lmao:

 

[Antarctican]

I haven't visited this thread for a while. Looking at just this page, WOW, some really wonderful, moody pics here!!!

 

[hankejp]

Wow, thank for bringing this thread back to life. Those are some crazy a** pictures

 

[Synnove]

In a small town with a lot of houses built in the 20s out in West Texas. People still lived here during picking season - peanuts or cotton.

 

[Chiller]

Got back into this abandoned house, but this time had a ghost proof flashlight that would not burn out. :lmao:
There is only one entrance to this place, which is a hole that somebody kicked in on one of the boarded up doors. To enter, I had to throw my camera bag inside, and do an army crawl. Inside there is no light, not even a stream leaking from a boarded up window. I was amazed at when I turned off the flashlight how dark it was.

Photographing this place is next to impossible. All I could do was shine the light, find a focusing point and shoot the cam with the flash on. :er:


The 70s kitchen

After exploring this bathroom, it seemed like the owner took one last shower and just left. That is a washcloth on the floor under the sink. A rotted bar of soap was in the tub.

Took me a few minutes to find the door to the basement. It was hidden behind another open door. Bugger....
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The view heading into the cellar.​

The view from the bottom of the stairs looking towards a recreation room. To the left is a furnace room, complete with an antique washing machine. ​

Lookin inside the furnace room. Kind of a creepy scene. Would have been a great place for a horror movie. Missed this shot a bit.:er:​

This is the rec room. Had a nice fireplace on the left side wall. Will post that shot later. I have no idea what caused that white light. There are no windows, or any fixtures on the wall for the flash to hit.​

Exploring around in the dark I came across this gem of a room. Whoever lived here had an obsession with these chairs. Wonder who he kept tied up there.​

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Have a few more images to edit yet. I found a photo album there, with some shots, and a bunch of negatives I might get printed. See if I can find any history to the place. I have heard that the owners got evicted, and another said that there was a death in the family, and they left.​

 

[mudthirsty]

This one was taken with my old Canon Rebel Gii film, so when I scanned it, it lost alot of its quality. But any who, some PS done as well. Same building Billy Talent shot their Try Honesty video in.

 

[Big Bully]

Mud, thats a cool shot.

Chiller your shots like usual are completely awesome!!! The photo of the stairway totally creeped me out, but I don't know why. I got chills.. You have lived up to your name, yet again. Great job!

 

[stsinner]

ahhhh this has turned into an urbex thread.

I love it!! More!! More!!!

 

[stsinner]

Then became a bio-testing facility for soldiers coming home from the Cold War.

I love the pictures, but just to be picky-no soldiers ever came home from the cold war, as it wasn't anything more than a war of words and posturing. Not a shot was fired.

 

[twoshoes]

Really creepy shots, great depiction of the dilapidation of the place.

no soldiers ever came home from the cold war, as it wasn't anything more than a war of words and posturing. Not a shot was fired.

It could be possible that it was used for that purpose; despite not a shot being fired, soldiers did 'come home' from the Cold War, although perhaps not in the traditional sense. Hundreds were posted on the border of East and West Germany for example. Saying that, it could also be that the wrong war was referred to.

 

[stsinner]

And yes the church is one among many things there left abandoned for 43 years now. They just never use it. The priest's coats/robes are still hanging in the same place in the closets. Even the confession booths are intact, which are pretty cool. It is also haunted by a strong entity. That I won't go into. I thought it was one of the best shape sites I've explored, however I do like the "oldness" and look of something truely delapitated also.

TY for looking.

How do you explain the flowers on the altar? Every church I know of uses fresh flowers... Not calling you a liar, or anything, just really amazed.

Also, if you got in, that means that others can get in, and it a building is accessible and abandoned, some a-holes will definitely destroy it. You sure it's abandoned? Are the pics of the toilet and towel dispenser from inside that church? There's not even dust on the pews or rug...

 

[stsinner]

Damn, Lost...nice site. :thumbup::thumbup: I gotta find another hospital to hit. I plan on going to this old nursing home in Deerfield in the next couple weeks. They wanted to demo it in 2006, but it still stands, and abandoned still. They never did convert it, either. Just hope that there is no security, no guards or nosy ass neighbors. Oh, gotta love those "neighborhood heros" that dial the police cuz there's a guy with a camera walking around! OOO...he looks soooo dangerous!!

I'd like to weenie-slap people like that.

Yo're in MA? Me, too.. If you ever want company on your abaondonment shoots, be sure to let me know!

 

[stsinner]

Ok, I hope I'm not breaking major laws here on the forums, but without further adeu, a certain Psychiatric Hospital somewhere in New York state. I shot all images using my Nikon 10.5mm. The title of this gallery is "Focal Edema"

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