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Where's the grand piano? I'm disappointed.

Posted by robdobi was this at pleasure beach by any chance? happened to me out there.

Yeah it totally was

Posted by Freak Ha, I almost forgot about the time I found a coffin in a trailer. I told my friend to take some pictures right as I opened it, in case there was something horrible and I made a funny expression (that's right, consider comedic value rather than respect for the potentially dead!). (Un)fortunately it was empty http://drainfreak....f/sheep/sheep6.jpg Also found a chainsaw on the same trip. http://drainfreak..../sheep/sheep10.jpg

He looks so proud of his chainsaw hahaha

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Inside an abandoned shirt factory.

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Inside the same factory. It was just generally a creepy atmospher

Posted by CliffsEdge 1. click to view Inside an abandoned shirt factory. 2. click to view Inside the same factory. It was just generally a creepy atmospher

Reminds me of my old Nova Dye and Print factory that burned down...I miss that ol' death trap.

Out in the California Valley, I once ran into a guy wearing some kind of transmitter backpack. It was a large gray box, with a four foot long whip antenna sticking out of the top. It was affixed to his back like a backpack. We were both on a stretch of trail that had been closed for over five years, so we weren't supposed to be there. I was going out to check out a long abandoned fire lookout.

Even weirder was that he was wearing a Glock-ish looking semi auto in a black plastic holster. When I passed him on the trail, he was studying a GPS and he looked up and nodded. He didn't say anything, and I got the sense he wanted to be left alone.

That's when I got the feeling. That Spidey sense that tells you that you should go somewhere else quickly. I still don't know what he was doing, or if it was even something nefarious. I did get a distinct law enforcement vibe from him though.

Anyhoo, thanks for letting me share : )

Posted by azuro1125 Out in the California Valley, I once ran into a guy wearing some kind of transmitter backpack. It was a large gray box, with a four foot long whip antenna sticking out of the top. It was affixed to his back like a backpack. We were both on a stretch of trail that had been closed for over five years, so we weren't supposed to be there. I was going out to check out a long abandoned fire lookout. Even weirder was that he was wearing a Glock-ish looking semi auto in a black plastic holster. When I passed him on the trail, he was studying a GPS and he looked up and nodded. He didn't say anything, and I got the sense he wanted to be left alone. That's when I got the feeling. That Spidey sense that tells you that you should go somewhere else quickly. I still don't know what he was doing, or if it was even something nefarious. I did get a distinct law enforcement vibe from him though. Anyhoo, thanks for letting me share : )

you may have met a Google Street View Surveyor. :p they have backpack units they wear when road travel isn't possible. that's how they mapped the Iditarod last year. poor guy snow mobiling and skiing over 1000 miles.

I was once looking for a ghost town in California called Drawbridge. It's out in the middle of some baylands, and doesn't have an easy way to access it anymore. It was summer, so i was just driving around the perimeter of the bay to see if there was a large enough dried out spot to just walk out there and see if i could find it. That wouldn't be unreasonable.

Anyway, i ended up driving on a gravel road behind some empty office buildings. Not sure if they were vacant, or just empty because it was the weekend. Anyway, i found a weird little area between a disused power substation and an abandoned but very secured strip mine where some fences met up oddly and made sort of a square inlet cutout with just baylands behind. This was maybe a quarter mile past those electronics buildings.

I noticed a new Mercedes parked on this road, maybe 50ish feet away from the square inlet in the fence. Noticed... in that little inset square area there was a tent, and probably hundreds of sunchip bags littering the ground. Blue flavor. All blue. Now i stopped to look closer because i noticed something on the fence. A dead duck, bleeding. Noticed there were guns laying around, including a plastic bucket with 4 rifle barrels pointing straight up out of it. One looked automatic, the rest looked like hunting rifles.

And tied to the fence behind the tent were all manner of bones, body parts, and dead animals. The tent was moving around as though someone was moving around in there and trying to come out, so i got a picture real quick and got the hell out of there.

This is the picture:

The black thing in the foreground is the tent.

Man, you have bigger balls than I... I would have been out of there so fast! Once I saw the guns, I'd be out.

Posted by 13thmurder I was once looking for a ghost town in California called Drawbridge. It's out in the middle of some baylands, and doesn't have an easy way to access it anymore. It was summer, so i was just driving around the perimeter of the bay to see if there was a large enough dried out spot to just walk out there and see if i could find it. That wouldn't be unreasonable. Anyway, i ended up driving on a gravel road behind some empty office buildings. Not sure if they were vacant, or just empty because it was the weekend. Anyway, i found a weird little area between a disused power substation and an abandoned but very secured strip mine where some fences met up oddly and made sort of a square inlet cutout with just baylands behind. This was maybe a quarter mile past those electronics buildings. I noticed a new Mercedes parked on this road, maybe 50ish feet away from the square inlet in the fence. Noticed... in that little inset square area there was a tent, and probably hundreds of sunchip bags littering the ground. Blue flavor. All blue. Now i stopped to look closer because i noticed something on the fence. A dead duck, bleeding. Noticed there were guns laying around, including a plastic bucket with 4 rifle barrels pointing straight up out of it. One looked automatic, the rest looked like hunting rifles. And tied to the fence behind the tent were all manner of bones, body parts, and dead animals. The tent was moving around as though someone was moving around in there and trying to come out, so i got a picture real quick and got the hell out of there. This is the picture: http://i.imgur.com/oQ48URU.jpg The black thing in the foreground is the tent.

I'd have bailed when I saw the guns IMO, but the part in red makes zero sense. Real automatic weapons are fairly rare, with it being (extremely) more likely to have been a regular rifle.

On topic, the creepiest one would have been *real* looking fresh bloody handprints and drag marks at an abandoned house and it's attached garage. Nope'd the fuck out of there fast.

Turned out the local PD was there a few hours before to rig the place up for some SWAT training that evening. If we had stayed longer, things could have been real awkward when they popped in and found out people were in there.

I don't know much about guns. Most of them had long barrels and scopes on them like hunting rifles, one was a bit shorter and looked like a military style rifle, and i assume those types are automatic but i have no idea.

Posted by 13thmurder I don't know much about guns. Most of them had long barrels and scopes on them like hunting rifles, one was a bit shorter and looked like a military style rifle, and i assume those types are automatic but i have no idea.

Oddly enough, the "military style" guns are less powerful than a hunting rifle, and are just cosmetically similar to military weapons. They lack certain parts to make them function like real ones, and it is a federal crime to try to convert them.

Not criticizing, just trying to add info.

Posted by DarkAngel Oddly enough, the "military style" guns are less powerful than a hunting rifle, and are just cosmetically similar to military weapons. They lack certain parts to make them function like real ones, and it is a federal crime to try to convert them.

The guns aren't the most disturbing part. What the hell is with the animal corpses? When you first talked about guns and chip bags I though it could be some littering hunters- even the duck could be passed off as a fresh kill being kept off the ground.

But the bones? Those had fur, dried flesh attached. Those obviously weren't killed for food, nor for trophies. Who kills that many animals and then hangs them on a fence to decompose, in the middle of their living quarters?

Whatever was going on there, it wasn't hunting. I can tell you that much.

Post by Aran Posted by DarkAngel Whatever was going on there, it wasn't hunting. I can tell you that much.

I could not agree more. I wonder if it's some sort of ritualistic protection?
Either that or the person has some pretty serious issues where having guns probably isn't in their (or anyone elses) best interests. haha

Did they want to trade you an already fucked chicken?

Posted by 13thmurder I was once looking for a ghost town in California called Drawbridge. It's out in the middle of some baylands, and doesn't have an easy way to access it anymore. It was summer, so i was just driving around the perimeter of the bay to see if there was a large enough dried out spot to just walk out there and see if i could find it. That wouldn't be unreasonable. Anyway, i ended up driving on a gravel road behind some empty office buildings. Not sure if they were vacant, or just empty because it was the weekend. Anyway, i found a weird little area between a disused power substation and an abandoned but very secured strip mine where some fences met up oddly and made sort of a square inlet cutout with just baylands behind. This was maybe a quarter mile past those electronics buildings. I noticed a new Mercedes parked on this road, maybe 50ish feet away from the square inlet in the fence. Noticed... in that little inset square area there was a tent, and probably hundreds of sunchip bags littering the ground. Blue flavor. All blue. Now i stopped to look closer because i noticed something on the fence. A dead duck, bleeding. Noticed there were guns laying around, including a plastic bucket with 4 rifle barrels pointing straight up out of it. One looked automatic, the rest looked like hunting rifles. And tied to the fence behind the tent were all manner of bones, body parts, and dead animals. The tent was moving around as though someone was moving around in there and trying to come out, so i got a picture real quick and got the hell out of there. This is the picture: http://i.imgur.com/oQ48URU.jpg The black thing in the foreground is the tent.

I think I know what place you're talking about. Isn't this at the end of the street with the movie theater? I drive down to the end of the street during my break. But I don't think that it's a mine at the end of the street..it's a waste disposal facility. And the offices are still in use. And there is another, easier way to drawbridge. Did you ever find your way to drawbridge?

Posted by MartyMcFly Did they want to trade you an already fucked chicken?

I'll pass on having it with injected marinade thank you lol

Posted by Landser I think I know what place you're talking about. Isn't this at the end of the street with the movie theater? I drive down to the end of the street during my break. But I don't think that it's a mine at the end of the street..it's a waste disposal facility. And the offices are still in use. And there is another, easier way to drawbridge. Did you ever find your way to drawbridge?

Nah, never ended up in drawbridge. I don't live anywhere close to that area anymore either, so drawbridge probably won't ever happen for me.

And i don't know of any movie theater anywhere near there. However, i do remember passing a sort of archway pretty close by with brass statues of herons on top. It would be hard to miss if you go down this road, since it's right by the entrance. Does that sound familiar at all?

Posted by 13thmurder Nah, never ended up in drawbridge. I don't live anywhere close to that area anymore either, so drawbridge probably won't ever happen for me. And i don't know of any movie theater anywhere near there. However, i do remember passing a sort of archway pretty close by with brass statues of herons on top. It would be hard to miss if you go down this road, since it's right by the entrance. Does that sound familiar at all?

Hmmmm not really. Do you recall the street you were on? Because I remember it. I'll PM you

A bit of a necro post, but it fits I'd say.

Last December I was exploring a now renovated feed mill when I decided to photograph some graffiti. Looking at the pictures a few months later, I noticed what appeared to be a pair of red eyes in the upper part of the frame that I did not notice while I was exploring the building. Here's the original picture, with the "eyes" circled in red:


And here's a cropped and zoomed in version.



No clue what that was. There were extension cords running through the area for some preliminary renovations in one section of the building, so maybe it was a light I never noticed. Maybe it was a small animal gazing at me, or a particularly reflective piece of wall. Maybe it was just a photographic fluke. But this fits the "I saw teh orbz on the camera afterwards" ghost hunter stereotype so well that I felt it was worth posting, even if I don't believe in ghosts.