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This is my first post! The location is one that there already seems to be a lot of stuff about on here.
I'm pretty new at exploring and most of the journey was rushed and kinda intense because my friend who I was with was very set on trying to get to a specific building in a short period of time, so I didn't get the chance to take pictures after the first few minutes we were there.
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Most of the experience had to do with the tunnels, and we didn't find the place we were trying to get to, but I'm not sure how much it'd be alright to share about that because I'm not sure if tunnel stuff counts as entry details. I think we were in most of the buildings at some point, because my friend had been in a big hurry to find that particular place, so we were rushing through the whole campus really fast, just coming up and looking for new tunnel entrances and then going back down. It was really emotionally overwhelming because it was only my fourth time exploring and the previous places had all been brightly lit and not very complicated.
One weird thing is that a few levels deep in the tunnels, when things started getting smaller and narrower and there were large systems of pipes running along the walls, and there weren't really any signs of other people having been there for the past several segments of tunnel, we started finding bikes? And then after encountering a few bikes (which were fairly new looking and not nearly as rusted as the rest of the place) there were two large, new inflatable pool rafts blocking the path. We thought of a possible reasons they were there but it still feels really mysterious, so if anyone has any kind of guesses or input that'd be super appreciated.
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Hey, nice photos! I was just here a few days ago, and yeah, I can definitely relate to getting turned around in those tunnels :p.
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Yeah. Once we decided to turn around we got super lost for a while. I've looked at the buildings from Google Earth, but aside from the children's building and the building we went in from I have no idea where we were or how the tunnels were arranged or what sort of route we took. I just sort of imagine it being like, a giant labyrinth that rearranges itself whenever you're not looking.
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It makes me sad how absolutely trashed this campus has gotten in the last few years. I even saw a mother and son getting arrested at the auditorium when I was sleeping in a field a couple weeks ago
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The tunnels here are pretty weird, I've probably spent more time in them than the buildings themselves. There is one group connected to the children's building underground but none of those buildings connect to any of the good stuff. Which is why a majority of the vandalism is contained to these buildings, so I guess it's a good thing.
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Posted by southshore
It makes me sad how absolutely trashed this campus has gotten in the last few years. I even saw a mother and son getting arrested at the auditorium when I was sleeping in a field a couple weeks ago
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WTF?
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There's a. Thread about it here. A kids 18th birthday.
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I don't remember us getting arrested....did we somehow stumble into the Twilight Zone? 
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Where were these taken?
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Posted by Sanitarium Sean
I don't remember us getting arrested....did we somehow stumble into the Twilight Zone?
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Lol I was about to say...I think I would've remembered that turn in your story...
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Posted by Sanitarium Sean
I don't remember us getting arrested....did we somehow stumble into the Twilight Zone?
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I had a bad feeling after talking to your mother when she said you were inside alone... 20 mins later the campus was crawling with cops and two cruisers were at the bowling alley. my apologies for saying you got arrested, i just figured thats what was going down.
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Posted by southshore
I had a bad feeling after talking to your mother when she said you were inside alone... 20 mins later the campus was crawling with cops and two cruisers were at the bowling alley. my apologies for saying you got arrested, i just figured thats what was going down.
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Haha no problem, it wasn't an unreasonable assumption. Seeing the cops zipping around like that is what prompted us to go somewhere else and try again a couple days later.
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