/x/ - Paranormal

Pic 1: Storage room in the basement. All the bed frames from upstairs were dismantled and stored in here; light fixture is falling out of the ceiling. Mattresses were stored in another room nearby. Outside this room is a 55 gallon drum; no idea what the contents are, but the surviving part of the label warns that its contents can etch glass. Knocking on it reveals it's full. The basement hallway got wet whenever it rained, but the other rooms down there stayed dry.

Pic 2: Coal furnace that heated the entire building via steam pipes. Very cool, and in excellent shape; you could be using it today.

Pic 3: Largest room in the basement was a workshop/machine room. This work bench took up one wall and was full of cleaning supplies, rusty tools, etc. The furnace was in one corner of this room, and there were two deep pits (~10ft deep) in the floor where some sort of machinery used to be.

Pic 4: Shelf in a storage room off the main room. Full of obsolete parts, huge fuses, lightbulbs in weird sizes I don't think anyone uses anymore, an old fire hose, and other stuff the maintenance crew would need from day to day.

Pic 5: Graffiti in the other stairwell leading to the basement. This section is known as Hell to those who've explored this old building.

Pic 1: Floor of a meat locker. Hell is a series of walk-in freezers in the basement, below the kitchen/cafeteria. One freezer had a creepy poem written around its entire circumference in Sharpie, but this one was creepiest because of the dried blood, paint, and whatever else was on the floor. You had to be really careful exploring this part of the building because you could easily be trapped inside a meat locker/freezer if the door closed on you.

Pic 2: Get out of here, Stalker. Yes, we wore gas masks. Partly for atmosphere, but mostly because the building is full of asbestos, mold, and other disgusting shit we didn't want to be breathing in.

Pic 3: Bottom of an elevator shaft. The building had two elevators; one was stuck between the 1st and 2nd floors, the other was stuck on the 8th floor. Only the 2nd elevator went all to the top of the building.

Pic 4: Same elevator shaft, from the 3rd or 4th floor. The elevator doors were closed on most floors, but had been pried open on a couple floors and used as trash chutes by hobos.

Pic 5: The 1st floor and basement were in pretty bad shape, with water damage, vandalism, mold, etc. but the 2nd through 6th floors were relatively intact. You could seriously vacuum the carpet, paint the walls, and move furniture in and you'd never know the building had been abandoned for 30+ years. The exception was this dorm room, where someone felt the need to smash out the wall between two rooms.

Pic 1: Graffiti was surprisingly scarce in this building; most abandoned buildings I've explored are covered in it. Other than the basement and the mural on the 1st floor that had been vandalized, this random dorm room on the 2nd floor was the only one with graffiti.

Pic 2: 4th floor hallway. These halls were creepy as fuck; there was plenty of light in the individual dorm rooms, but the halls only got light from windows at either end and any open doorways. The bathrooms were pitch black, and someone had taken all the mirrors off the walls and neatly stacked them in the hallway… where explorers/hobos smashed them to pieces.

Pic 3: 5th floor dorm room. We freaked out when we heard a door slam, thinking there was someone else in the building with us (we were concerned because a homeless guy had been stalking girls on campus for the past month and we didn't want to run into him). Investigation revealed the door had been blown shut by wind blowing through an open window. We laughed at ourselves, then posed for a photo.

Pic 4: Magazine from the 80's found on the floor in a 3rd floor room. There was a trio of mummified cats, two of whom had obviously been killed by having their heads bashed in, in the same room.

Pic 5: The one and only stairwell in the building. Narrow, steep, and with really slick tile flooring. The only other way to get around the building is the fire escape, which was falling apart and clearly unsafe.

Pic 1: 3rd floor storage room. Someone had shot out the window, and not with a BB gun. We thought it was perfect for a Stalker-esque photo.

Pic 2: Same room. The room next door was full of identical chairs stacked floor to ceiling, old-school metal desks also stacked floor to ceiling, and shelves full of table lamps that some asshole had smashed. My friend ended up stealing one of the intact chairs and using it in his dorm room. I think he still has it.

Pic 3: 8th floor, some homeless guy dragged a couple mattresses all the way up from the basement, and a couple nightstands and other furniture from the 2nd/3rd floor storage rooms. There were a lot of women's shoes, mostly high heels, scattered around, giving a real Silence of the Lambs vibe.

Pic 4: Seriously, it was creepy. I only took photos of a fraction of the shoes this guy had collected; he had about a dozen pairs scattered around the room, and the closet (which I didn't photograph because the battery on my shitty camera didn't last long and memory cards only held about 30 photos back then) had about a hundred more women's shoes. We assumed we had found the place where the campus stalker was living.

Pic 5: So I pissed on his bed. Fuck him. The elevator lobby on this floor had burned linoleum and the hobo had clearly built a fire out of pieces of furniture and cloth, either to stay warm or to cook. Building a fire on the bare floor of a building is not a sign of the most mentally stable individual. He'd also pried open the doors to one of the elevator shafts to use it as a garbage dump.

Pic 1: The 1st floor and basement were awful, the 2nd through 6th floors were mostly pristine, and the 7th floor up to the roof were all in awful shape; there was mold and water damage from rain coming in through open windows, and this one room on the 9th floor was apparently REALLY popular with pigeons because it was COVERED in bird shit.

Pic 2: Top floor. First signs of vandalism since the 3rd floor; minor graffiti (including one that was vaguely creepy because it said ONE WAY and had an arrow pointing upward), part of the wall smashed out, and a chair stabbed into the wall for no discernible reason.

Pic 3: The top floor was a large ballroom/dance floor with a small kitchen area attached, plus a single elevator. Oddly, someone had started tearing up the dance floor and neatly stacking it beside the wall or putting it into boxes, then stopped less than halfway through the job. Considering the condition everything was in, I believe this was done when the building was being closed up and not by explorers/hobos afterward.

Pic 4: Somebody hung a chair from a light fixture for some reason. Either they brought a ladder or repeatedly tossed a chair 12 feet in the air until it got stuck.

Pic 5: View from the rooftop. We were reluctant to walk out onto the roof, partly because we didn't want to be seen by anyone on the ground (they might call the cops on us), and partly because the roof was sagging in places and you could feel it flex under your feet when you walked on it.

That's about it. 10 year old photos of an abandoned dormitory in the middle of nowhere. I have a friend who still lives in that town, so I may organize an expedition to that building and take more/better photos, see how it's changed in the last decade.

Good thread so I'm adding to it with OP's format. These are from a year or two ago in one of the newer buildings of an abandoned mental asylum. Place been abandoned since the 80s as far as I know, but the oldest building (1820) is getting worked on into an office building. Tragically they've built a baseball stadium on the property, no clue what else is being done

Pic 1: Hallway on the bottom floor of the place

Pic 2: Not sure what these are, thought it was a cool enough shot

Pic 3: Another shot on the bottom floor of the building

Pic 4: Spoooooopy (The guy I brought with me decided to bring a clown mask for shits and giggles)

Pic 5: Hallway in the second floor. We found a room where it looked like a homeless man lived, mattresses and clothes and all. (He wasn't there but I didn't take a pic out of respect for whoever the guy might be)

Second post coming

>>35038

>Pic 1&2: "In w/ the insane" "Gone mad just like the rest of them; Calamity Vance" graffiti we saw recurring in the place, anyone know if that goblin symbol is anything interesting?

>pic 3: "Almost there keep going" Last of a few graffities along the lobby and first floor. The others said things like "Getting warmer" and "This way" but we didn't take pics of them. Probably just some kid trying to be scary but it gave us really bad juju when we wanted to go to the third floor, so we pussied out

Pic 4: Way too funny when I came across it

Pic 5: Spoopy stairs by the graffiti in pic 3

>>35996

I'll make sure to have my silver orthodox cross on hand, but I think my .45 S&W is gonna provide a lot more protection to be quite honest, familam.

>Don't trip on shit

Was't planning on it. Will make sure I have both my standard flashlight lantern, and a backup high-lumen flashlight just in case if I go urban delving, the high-lumen so I can shine it in some meth head's face if he's squatting and violent (otherwise will just leave him/her alone). I might trade out my normal rayovac floating lantern for an actual LED lantern or play it safe with an oil lantern so I have different power sources in case SHTF.

>You could say is for breaking shit

Only option there is my exercise club or the crowbar. It's just black pipe, but it's got a good bit of weight to it.

Anyways not sure what I'll do about equipment for going in. I figure minimum I'll need…

>Portable lantern and backup flashlight

>Crowbar

>Handgun

>Flat head and Phillips screwdriver

>Cable cutters

>Folding knife

>Hand warmers

>One unit of the Marijuana

Admittedly they make mini crowbars and compact cable cutters, and I could explain the cable cutters/screwdrivers based on being an electrical worker, but if a cop stops me while I'm in dark blue attire with a backpack late at night and digs through said backpack, not sure how I'll explain my way out of that one. Cops around here are assholes and unfortunately they actually do road stops and shit if they think something's suspicious instead of just driving on by like they do out East.

Colorado's got more rural/innawoods abandoned shit than urban abandoned shit, and the rural/innawoods abandoned shit is really bad juju to go around or up in the mountains, so I'm not really sure. That abandoned hotel is along I-25 and technically isn't "abandoned" so much as the construction was finished but there was a falling out with the construction company right before its completion/said company had an exclusive binding contract. Any suggestions for shit inbetween Pueblo and Southern Denver I could go exploring through fam?