"Urban explorer visits abandoned asylum in Maryland" Topic

I used to live right by there. Went to Laurel High School just a few minutes away.

That's a big complex!

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Dan

It is always interesting to see abandoned places.

Stuff like that is fascinating.

Strange that the chapel shows much less deterioration than the rest of the facility.

That's a big complex!

You have to have a big complex to be locked in an asylum.

Okay so how many of you would have tried to pop that Pepsi machine open to see if there was any money in it?

Plus why so many dentist chairs?

WOW, thanks for posting the link.

Depressing place.

It reminds me of sets from the TV show Supernatural.

There are a number of large abandoned medical, health care, prisons, etc. type facilities all over the US. Most of the Ghost Hunter type shows visits them. There are a couple of "famous" ones in PA, OH, CA, KY, etc. … It does amaze me how many of the various sized abandoned facilities, mansions, castles, grave yards etc. there are. Through out the US, and the world for that matter. Whether they are haunted or not is up to your interpretation … If are looking or inspiration for you zombie, Scooby-do, etc. gaming tables … Watch the various ghost reality shows on the Sci-fi and Travel Channels … to name a few … You may have to sleep with the light on !

Most of us may have at least heard of an abandoned locality or two in our neighborhood. Sometimes, if we're lucky, one is close enough that we can go 'round and peer through the chain link fence and wonder "what it's like" inside.

Urban explorers and the internet have brought endless places like this, from all over the world, right to our desktops.

I'm grateful for the insight and inspiration the efforts of these intrepid souls provide.

I seriously doubt that I've the chutzpah to go and do what some of them have done.

urban3p.ru {Bring your Google Translaor with you}

And I do realize that much of what they do, when they go to these places, is illegal, or just plain dangerous.

But, without their efforts, much of the visual history of these places would disappear forever….

Duck

@Legion 4,
About twenty-five years ago, my brother and I found a small abandoned amusement park in Southern California that we had visited twenty years earliers as little kids.
We found the front gates, overgrown with ivy, tore down the ivy and went in. It was perfectly preserved and the stores were fully stocked. We figured out that it had been abandoned ten years earlier by the newspapers that were left behind.
After we left the park, we went to a nearby burger joint to eat. We tried talking to the locals about the park, but they knew nothing about it! Apparently developers built around the park and the ivy hid the park from general view.
A year later, my brother and I returned for a look and the park had been replaced by ugly condos :(
There's just so much out there that people don't even know about.

That is very true … I've heard on a number of stories of people running into an abondoned house in the thick woods or farms way out in rural areas, etc. When setting up a nav course at Ft. Campbell. KY in '80. Literally out in the middle of the woods near a trail, we ran across an old small grave yard. Looked like a famliy plot, there may have been a farm or homestead nearby, a long, long time ago. All the relatives must have died or moved away, decades ago. It was not even on our maps. As Ft. Campbell, grew and expanded over the years, it bought up the local lands. You'll find cemetaries like that on a number of military posts. At Ft. Benning, GA. there is an old family plot next to a rifle range near the PX near Kelly Hill. Their are even family plots that are still visited by locals who relatives are buried there. There is one in the middle of Ft. Campbell, KY, with an old rod iron fence and old dead tree in it among some of the very old the graves. We used it as an RP sometimes. It was on the map and we all knew where it was … Always found fresh [or plastic] flowers on some of the graves.

@Legion 4,
There's a possibility that might've been a secret "negro" cemetery. You see, some places used to give African-Americans such a hard time about burying their dead that some African-Americans started family cemeteries deep in the boonies so they give their dead a decent burial.
I hope I never understand the mentality of not allowing people to bury their loved ones because of their color.

@Mithmee,

Yes, that thought ran through my mind about money being in the Pepsi machine. It looks so out of place. Given the condition of the rest of the place.

I was think it would be cool to have one of the old video games.

That may be true also, Coelacanth1938 … I also knew about that old very bad concept … Have seen sites like that visited by the Ghost Hunter types. I was also interested in see on those type shows how many abandoned cemetaries there are all over the US. But there was no one at the graveyard to ask at that time when we ran across that overgrown abandoned group of gravestones at Ft. Campbell … In the middle downtown Columbus, OH is an ACW cemetary that was a Confedrate POW camp during the war. It was way out on the out skirts of Columbus, OH during the ACW. Many died from a smallpox outbreak, IIRC. But as the city expanded, it was absorbed into the cityscape. It is still there and kept up nicely. And is supposed to have a few ghosts of it's own too ?

This looks mighty interesting … and cheap:

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And some of it is available for 15mm gaming as well:

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Dan

That is very Cool !

Hmm, one not on Urban Ghosts yet…
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CC, I have to disagree with your figures. 5mm foamcore costs a packet, and I can't even find 3mm.

Cheap stuff over here, specially if you order in bulk. The Dollar Store sells whole sheets too for, well, a dollar.

Dan

Yes, but I was looking at stores that exist here.

@chironex
We've had a few dollar stores here in Las Vegas going under overnight. Makes me nervous.

I've come across some cool stuff in rural Seminole County before. Mostly abandoned and burnt-out houses, but there's virtually a complete thirty-mile stretch of FEC right-of-way in Seminole, Volusia, and Brevard, including hundred-year-old timber abutments. We also have a ton of abandoned coal chutes and grain elevators where I'm from, but they're in an active seaport and thus very unadvisable to go near. If I lived in PA, you can bet that I'd be poking around old colliery surface structures…

Visit Centrailia.

There's a former mental hospital near me which was shut-down by court order in 1980. When I first discovered it, I was out walking my dog, went down an isolated road and-behold!-an abandoned city. I hadn't known about it at the time. Now, much of it has been sold-off and copper scavengers have ripped open what's left.