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*zenithfan1* · #1 04-15-2009, 01:41 PM

I know I'm nuts but this time I'm bringing my Mag light to see what's in the second half of the basement or crawl space, I really couldn't see before and I wasn't going in the dark. The first half seems to be an addition ( the kitchen ) The older part is all stone, I would date the house at around 1900. I'll take pictures down there too if something don't eat me. If I don't post anything else in a few days, come look for me. No one I know has the balls (or stupidity) to go with me to these places, that's why I've always done it alone.

It was really spooky looking out the front windows on the porch, the only ones with glass pretty much. Just looking at the cars going by thinking, what the hell is behind me??, it was like someone was hovering over my shoulder looking with me, maybe my imagination but I don't know...... I really wish one of you guys could come out there with me. Any takers????

joe111671 · #2 04-27-2009, 08:14 PM

Hey Mark, after you told me about this thread the other day, I read it - too bad I didn't see it earlier, I would have gone in there with you and checked out the house - if you plan to go back, let me know!

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Originally Posted by zenithfan1

I know I'm nuts but this time I'm bringing my Mag light to see what's in the second half of the basement or crawl space, I really couldn't see before and I wasn't going in the dark. The first half seems to be an addition ( the kitchen ) The older part is all stone, I would date the house at around 1900. I'll take pictures down there too if something don't eat me alive. The house is located appx. 1 mi north of county road Q (or 104th street) on 120th ave (frontage road for I 94). on the right in Pleasant Prairie WI. If I don't post anything else in a few days, come look for me. No one I know has the balls (or stupidity) to go with me to these places, that's why I've always done it alone.

It was really spooky looking out the front windows on the porch, the only ones with glass pretty much. Just looking at the cars going by thinking, what the hell is behind me??, it was like someone was hovering over my shoulder looking with me, maybe my imagination but I don't know...... I really wish one of you guys could come out there with me. Any takers????

thunderroad · #3 04-27-2009, 09:11 PM

This thread reminded me of a Website that I came across several years ago, that was built by a young lady in Russia (now Ukraine). She has/had access to the "dead zone" around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that was caused by the meltdown and documented her motorcycle tour of it. Here is the link: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/ She has added much more material since I first found the site, but I think it is a fasinating work in photo jouralism. The other stuff is just as interesting as the Chernobyl material. Start by clicking on the links in her toolbar on the left. The original Chernobyl material is the second link down; "Ghost Town and the Land of the Wolves". It'll creep you out big time.

qboneus · #4 04-28-2009, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by thunderroad

This thread reminded me of a Website that I came across several years ago, that was built by a young lady in Russia (now Ukraine). She has/had access to the "dead zone" around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that was caused by the meltdown and documented her motorcycle tour of it. Here is the link: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/ She has added much more material since I first found the site, but I think it is a fasinating work in photo jouralism. The other stuff is just as interesting as the Chernobyl material. Start by clicking on the links in her toolbar on the left. The original Chernobyl material is the second link down; "Ghost Town and the Land of the Wolves". It'll creep you out big time.

I was equally impressed with this elena and her pictures until I found out it is a sham..
sorry,

http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_a...951&currpage=4
sorry for the Hj.

check out these photos!
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...io-interactive
tal

qboneus · #5 04-15-2009, 01:43 PM

Want creepy; make your skin crawl try exploring minesites!

Approximately 4915 abandoned hardrock mines exist in Montana by 'official' numbers

I only wish at the time, when I was more adventerous, I had a camera to document and share some of the 'findings'

I never took or picked-up anything that I didn't come in with though with good reason in these areas...

my great-grandfather blew 2 fingers off as a child living in red lodge Mt when he found a blasting cap laying on a rr track set by a mine and picked it up to play with it

That was 80+ years ago; imagine how unstable dynamite can become by aging and sweating in un-controlled environment for an additional 80 years or so....

some with larger cause to be concerned about 'energies' than others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Mine_disaster
positively CREEPY atmosphere!

If you like abandoned industrial sites mines are

if you are crazy

enough, know what you are doing, and careful enough..
tal

*zenithfan1* · #6 04-15-2009, 01:46 PM

I don't know.........mines are where I draw a very big line. Those things make me feel claustrophobic just thinking about them

Sandy G · #7 04-15-2009, 01:50 PM

In Pressmen's Home, right next to the Trade School bldg I went into, is a chapel. The ramrod behind PH was a Maj. George Leonard Berry, he was president of the Union from 1907 til he died in '48. He was married, but it was common knowlege he had a "girlfriend". In the chapel, there was a fresco painted on the ceiling, w/angels & cherubim, etc, the face of one of the "angels" was sposed to be the girlfriend's face... The doors to the chapel were broken down, one was pushed over from the doorframe from where the floor was rotted away to where it got "solid" again. there was a maroon carpet that was about 2" thick covering the floor. I went in a little ways, could see the faded fresco on the ceiling, but it was dark in there, & you really couldn't tell much about it. Besides, the floor was kinda, well, not very solid, & I'm a big guy, I felt like Discretion was the better part of Valor, so I didn't tarry in there too long. Didn't particularly feel like trying to climb out of a basement in a ruined church...I also went into another bldg, it was their telephone building, it was kinda small, like a toolshed, all the old phone switchgear was still there, along w/manuals, spare parts, general junque. The latest date I found on stuff was 1948... Wished I'd "cabbaged" a bit on some of that stuff...The only thing I took was a weird tube that was pretty big, & had gold-colored getters in it instead of the more familiar silver...No #s on it of course.

*zenithfan1* · #8 04-15-2009, 01:54 PM

Man, that place sounds cool Sandy. Is it still there?

Sandy G · #9 04-15-2009, 01:59 PM

Yep. There was a guy bought part of it though, & now he runs everybody off that wants to "look around". Google "Pressmen's Home", & you can see what it was like c. 1964...

*zenithfan1* · #10 04-15-2009, 02:07 PM

Cool stuff! There is a lot that comes up about it. Glad to hear it's still there. On another note, WOW. I just got the weirdest de-ja-vu I've had in a while.

AUdubon5425 · #11 04-15-2009, 02:08 PM

What's kept me out of abandoned buildings around here is *who* may also be inside. Lotsa crime in New Orleans. Guess that isn't much of a concern out in the country. There's a highrise downtown (The Rault Center) that's been vacant since the 1970's when there was a fire and 8 women jumped to their deaths. Pieces of it fall onto Rampart & Gravier Streets now & then. I know someone who's been inside (legally) and they say the upper floors are gutted, walking through the lobby & ground floor is like walking into 1973. There's more vacant highrises & industrial buildings since Katrina, but I'm more wary of the bums & crackheads than the police department!

I did find my 13" XL-100 and a Heathkit W-5M amp & pre-amp in a building my old boss was taking down in '06. Also saved the 1960's recessed fluorescent light fixtures from a board room and put them in my kitchen

And an old ceramic-cased Western Union wall-mounted dialer that summoned a messenger to the place from the WU office.

*zenithfan1* · #12 04-15-2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

What's kept me out of abandoned buildings around here is *who* may also be inside. Lotsa crime in New Orleans. Guess that isn't much of a concern out in the country. There's a highrise downtown (The Rault Center) that's been vacant since the 1970's when there was a fire and 8 women jumped to their deaths. Pieces of it fall onto Rampart & Gravier Streets now & then. I know someone who's been inside (legally) and they say the upper floors are gutted, walking through the lobby & ground floor is like walking into 1973. There's more vacant highrises & industrial buildings since Katrina, but I'm more wary of the bums & crackheads than the police department!

YES! I have thought of this many times, sometimes going in with a knife in my hand just incase. I went into a house in the middle of the ghetto in Kenosha a few years ago, I was very worried that someone was in there, people scare me more than ghosts and whatnot.

*zenithfan1* · #13 04-15-2009, 02:20 PM

You know what, the camera I'm taking also does video. I'll bring some extra batteries and make a video for youtube.
I can post a pic of the set tonight, it's out in the garage "evil-ing" the place up.

zenith2134 · #14 04-15-2009, 04:12 PM

I can't wait to see what you find there....Great thread

And yeah, people can be way more frightening than spirits....only thing, at least you can see/hear people better, and know what's actually in there!

(...Is there anybody....OUT THERE?)

Sandy G · #15 04-15-2009, 05:21 PM

No way in Hell I'd do now what I did back then...Not w/all the Meth Labs & other nonsense they find around here now. The area where PH is has ALWAYS had a very "creepy" feel to it...Lots of people have claimed to see odd lights & stuff in the bldgs there-most of which no longer have electricity connected to them. There was a tuberculosis sanatarium there where quite a few people died-Back in the old days, there was a good chance you'd contract TB if you worked in a platemaking dept of a printer, because of the chemicals they used. When the Union pulled out in '70, they tried to contact the families of folks who had died & were buried there, to see if they wanted them moved. Some did, but a lot of the older graves had no remaining kin, & the cemetary was subsequently abandoned, & a lot of the records of who was buried there were apparently lost. That cemetary is ONE creepy place.