Just outside of the town I live in, there is a massive densely wooded park that is largely forgotten. Itâs not that people donât know it is there, but itâs simply more of an afterthought. Itâs not ideal for hiking, it doesnât have any kid-friendly play areas, or even a […]
We found an abandoned structure in the middle of the wilderness. I wish we hadn’t. Read More »
I’m not particularly a religious person. I never really connected with the idea of believing in a God or a Devil; something like religion never really resonated with me until the night a few of my friends and I explored the Lockwood house. My mother gave me a laptop this
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Have you ever heard of urban spelunking, or maybe urban exploration? Itâs really awesome, like modern day adventuring. You explore cool old buildings that no one has been in forever. It can be kinda like playing an online MMORPG in that you can run into all sorts of danger. Sometimes
âWanna see something interesting?â Mark asked as he appeared in the doorway to the kitchen. Even in high school Mark was always the adventurer, and I was the sidekick. He was the extrovert, and I was his adopted introvert; following him along with whatever plan, scheme, or escapade. We were
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Since last year, Iâve become a huge fan of those YouTube channels that talk about small mysteries recorded inside the United States. You know, those channels, with their dark backgrounds, white cursive letters, spooky thumbnails and soothing but ominous voices, which sometimes narrate horror stories as well? From the west
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My hometown is residence to a large, and long abandoned, psychiatric hospital. Its official name was the Johnathan H. Murnow Regional Psychiatric Hospital (named after the founder). Everyone else that didnât work there called it âMurnowâs Mental Hospital.â Itâs the same story as any large hospital in the U.S. that
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It was around noon when the rust-coated sign that marked the townâs entrance came into my view. Sighing in relief that Google Maps hadnât failed me, I guided my car off the main road and down one of the concrete paths that lead through the woods and into Orbita. For
This Ukrainian ghost town wasn’t as abandoned as I thought… Read More »
I stepped up to the dilapidated red building, grinning from ear to ear. This is what brought me thrills in life; abandoned structures across America. This particular one was in Stoneychurch State Park, located in a rural town just south of the state border. I had been dreaming
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I like to go urban spelunking, “ruin diving” my friends call it. We find a place out in the middle of the nowhere that people have forgotten and we break in to see what treasures they might have left behind. On one of our trips we decided to check out
